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Gerry Dawes: “The 1947 Bosconia is the best red wine I have ever drunk.”
"I have a reputation among some writers and wine aficionados in Spain as
being a “Taliban,” as a couple have called me in print. They think
because I have defended the classic wines of La Rioja that I have an
old-fashioned franquista palate. They are full of shit. Few of them have
traveled the wine roads of Spain tasting wines in bodega after bodega
like I have. And I have done it, not from a base in Spain, but from the
United States. Between 2000 and 2010, there was a four year stretch
when I averaged EIGHT trips to Spain a year and another four years when I
averaged six trips per year. I have been in at least 600 bodegas in
Spain, some of them multiple times, re-visiting some of them as many as a
dozen times or more. Has anyone else in Spain–besides the owner Juan
Gil, the Marqués de Figueroa, been in vertical tastings of Palacio de
Fefiñanes Albariños six times?" - - Tom Perry, Inside Rioja
Gerry Dawes is the Producer and Program Host of Gerry Dawes & Friends, a weekly radio progam on WPWL 103.7 FM Pawling Public Radio in Pawling, New York.
Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a retrospective piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià.
In December, 2009, Dawes was awarded the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award in a profile written by José Andrés.
". . .That we were the first to introduce American readers to Ferran Adrià in 1997 and have ever since continued to bring you a blow-by-blow narrative of Spain's riveting ferment is chiefly due to our Spanish correspondent, Gerry "Mr. Spain" Dawes, the messianic wine and food journalist raised in Southern Illinois and possessor of a self-accumulated doctorate in the Spanish table. Gerry once again brings us up to the very minute. . ." - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher and Founding Editor/Publisher, Food Arts, October 2009.
Pilot for a reality television series
on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.
Experience Spain With Gerry Dawes: Customized Culinary, Wine & Cultural Trips to Spain & Travel Consulting on Spain
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@gmail.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@gmail.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com
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