This is an independent and personal guide to Portuguese and Spanish wines.
We don’t sell wines. We don’t organize wine trade markets. We only taste, buy, exchange wines. I love speak about them. We are not PRs of any winery. There is not any hidden economic interest behind The Wine Codex and will not in the future.
During all these years, I tasted with curiosity wines from all the Globe. I enjoy wines of the Old World and New World. Every wine tells me a story of men, of soil, weather and climate, geology, woods, knowledge and technology. This supreme combination makes so huge and complex the world of the wine.
The more foreign wines I tasted, the more I feel the high level of the Iberian Peninsule’s wines. The southwestern of Europe is a vaste land of diversity. The two states which conform today the Iberian Peninsule -Portugal and Spain-, hide deep and complex national identities -Galicia, Catalonia, Basque Country-, so different soils, diverse climate (rain and cold, bright sun), geography and geology, and the most diverse grape variety of the world. Nowadays, the global perception on most of the red and white peninsular wines continues to be as cheap and rough wines -in spite of that, it begins to change. I would like to share the treasure of Portugal and Spanish wines, from a modest, economic perspective of a passionate consumer.
Yes, this guide is a personal wine to these wines. It’s my personal file system to keep a memory of the many wines I taste, and maybe must be read as a part of my lifestyle blog, Capítulo 0. This guide has the dimension of my pocket, as a consumer, not more. There is not investment, not industry. Only a personal route to discover and learn with wine.
We accept wine submissions from wineries, and we compromise to taste all the wines they send and include it in The Wine Codex, with full editorial independence and with criteria expressed in the Tastelogue.
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THE EDITOR OF THE WINE CODEX
Manuel Gago (Palmeira, Ribeira, 1976) is journalist and professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, educating new journalists in the speciality of online journalism. Gago is author of several books on online journalism and information architecture. The last one is Sistemas Digitales de Información (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006) and Diseño Periodístico en Internet (UPV, 2007).
His personal blog on food, wine, travel, culture, new technologies is Capítulo 0. The blog is one of the oldest alive written in Galician language. Gago is the promotor of the Cuisine Code, a good practices code to promote transparency in the enogastronomy blogging, which is subscribed for more than 170 blogs and sites all around the world. And, of course, The Wine Codex too. Passionated with food and wine, he collaborate in Come e Fala, the weekly Radio Galega program on gastronomy, tourism and travel.
