Archive for May, 2008

May 28th, 2008

A Classic Revisted: A Rioja Wine

Posted by admin in Food & Drink, Wine and wineries

Deborah Hansen
Taberna de Haro
tabernaboston.com
CVNE was the wine you ordered at the asador (grill restaurant) when you didn’t know what else to order and you knew you’d get a reliable if unadventurous crianza. That was a decade or two ago, before Robert Parker made wealthy men and women out of vintners who figured […]


May 12th, 2008

Recommended wines by Deborah Hansen

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Deborah Hansen is the owner and chef at Taberna de Haro in Boston, Massachusetts. Taberna is a tapas and wine restaurant that has been around for almost a decade. Their wine list includes over 150 Spanish wines, which Deborah, a trained sumiller, personally selects from local distributors and on her yearly trips to different regions […]


May 4th, 2008

Bicentennial of an Uprising

Posted by admin in Short short videos, Spain - History

Madrid yawns awake on Monday May 5 from a long weekend…four long days of holidaying. First there was May Day or, what the Europeans see as the Socialist holiday, the day to honor the world’s workers. Then, in Madrid, there is May 2, and a bicentennial at that. On May 2nd, 1808, the madrileños rose […]