On Monday Angela and I made a ‘flying visit’ to Barcelona, to make a presentation at the Alimentaria Food & Wine Fair. And the subject of our presentation?… Wine closures. Those of you who know me will know that this is a subject very dear to my heart, and our bodega invests a huge amount of time in researching the very best closure for our wines. We are constantly testing new products, making test bottlings, and then tasting samples and analysing the results. This is an ingoing process – it never stops. I think it’s fair to say that we usually end up simply making an ‘upgrade’ to the product that we already use rather than changing it completely. Suffice to say that we are very happy with what we have.

As our supplier, Nomacorc, is very aware of our commitment to this subject (retaining samples from our test bottlings and helping us with our analysis), they are also very keen that we pass on our experience to other would-be customers, and hence they invited us to Barcelona to make this presentation. The last time we did this for them I presented in English, but on this occasion it was Angela’s turn to thrill the crowds! She later appeared on Catalan television, but unfortunately the broadcast was not downloadable.

On Monday Angela and I made a ‘flying visit’ to Barcelona, to make a presentation at the Alimentaria Food & Wine Fair. And the subject of our presentation?… Wine closures. Those of you who know me will know that this is a subject very dear to my heart, and our bodega invests a huge amount of time in researching the very best closure for our wines. We are constantly testing new products, making test bottlings, and then tasting samples and analysing the results. This is an ingoing process – it never stops. I think it’s fair to say that we usually end up simply making an ‘upgrade’ to the product that we already use rather than changing it completely. Suffice to say that we are very happy with what we have.

As our supplier, Nomacorc, is very aware of our commitment to this subject (retaining samples from our test bottlings and helping us with our analysis), they are also very keen that we pass on our experience to other would-be customers, and hence they invited us to Barcelona to make this presentation. The last time we did this for them I presented in English, but on this occasion it was Angela’s turn to thrill the crowds! She later appeared on Catalan television, but unfortunately the broadcast was not downloadable.