A touch of Languedoc and let's go to Mallorca!

Year 13, No. 03

Greetings,

I won't lie, it's been a warm winter.

I mean, not a heavier-hoodie kind of San Francisco winter, but a winter where I haven't cursed existence, needing to put on four layers just to take out the trash. If one is to squint their eyes when the sun beams in during midday, it can almost feel like early November sometimes. Almost.

This strange warmth has also allowed for a strange condition of there really being no "off season" for tourism in Europe which I saw firsthand when in Mallorca this past week.

Thankfully, the warmth has also favored the Ukrainians (*) who have had to weather a great deal of this winter with no heating and poor conditions, although winemakers in the south tell me that it portends a good harvest.

If you want to support the Ukrainians and are in Barcelona, you pick up the very last bottles of "Tocat per l'Est" at La Vinícola in Eixample. This is my Grenache wine from 2019 made with grapes from Porrera, Priorat. I'm not collecting a cent from the sales so that …