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Pig / lion / monkey / child wine

Posted: January 16th 2010 22:41. Last modified: January 18th 2010 10:29

A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.

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Categories: Flocks and work animals, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, The six ages of man, Wild beasts

Why most American (and a considerable proportion of Spanish) wine is crap

Posted: October 26th 2009 00:27. Last modified: October 28th 2009 10:20

Don’t believe the wine pundits.

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Categories: Acute diseases, Cultivation of the fields, Drink, Les bourgeois

Bottled in origin/Embotellado en orígen

Posted: March 3rd 2009 11:02.

A Spanish wine company is struggling with machinery and branding.

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Categories: Drink, Les bourgeois

Good bar in Puerto de Santa María

Posted: December 16th 2008 14:01.

Check out the excellent Justin’s review over at Catavino, which I can second, having got moderately wasted there on a cycle trip. (I don’t link much to Catavino because I have a basic distrust of wine reviews: if you liked it that much, how come you can remember anything about it?)

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Categories: Drink, Les bourgeois, Splog

The madness of Níjar

Posted: July 12th 2005 14:06. Last modified: September 27th 2009 19:18

Surprise has been expressed in circles, squares and other pleasingly simple geometrical arrangements of peapoles, that revolutionaries should want to destroy those who, according to Ken Livingstone and other prophets of the New Municipalism, are their nearest and dearest. What folly, my darlings!
We creaky reactionaries know that revolutions always destroy society (and often themselves) from [...]

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Categories: Decline, Les bourgeois

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Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

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