© Mónica R. Goya
Wine
November 2021
New work (text + images) for this month’s issue of Gourmets, featuring farmer Calixta Killander and her regenerative agriculture project in Cambridgeshire (UK), Flourish Produce.
October 2021
New writing work (available both in Spanish and English) for Spanish Wine Lover, featuring how Brexit has become a big issue for Spanish wine importers and producers. You can read it here.
October 2021
New writing work (in Spanish) for Gourmets, featuring a wine project that was born out of necessity: what to do with the 2020 grape harvest, when wineries weren’t buying small producers’ fruit because of the pandemic? Small grape growers joined forces and the outcome couldn’t be better. The story is included in the October issue, out now.
September 2020
New work for Whetstone magazine, a favourite indie publication. With a focus on championing food to expand human empathy and challenging mainstream trends, they publish unique food stories from around the world.
For the current issue, I wrote a long form feature on Victoria Torres, a fifth generation winemaker from La Palma, Canary Islands, who makes excellent wines despite all the challenges, including climate change.
The work appears in the Issue 6, out now. Please support independent journalism and buy or subscribe here.
July 2020
New restaurant review for Spanish Wine Lover, this time about La Barrica, a relatively new winebar and restaurant on Tenerife. You can read the full article (in English and Spanish) here.
March 2020
It’s a pleasure to write about Albariño wine and Galicia for the Latin American edition of Food & Wine.
February 2020
It’s been a pleasure to interview Jonatan García Lima of Suertes del Marqués winery. He is at the forefront of quality wines from Tenerife. You can read the full story here and also see some accompanying images shot at the winery last autumn.
February 2020
New restaurant review for Spanish Wine Lover, this time about a favourite on Lanzarote, R Restaurant. You can read the full article (in English and Spanish) here.
January 2020
New restaurant review for Spanish Wine Lover, this time about a favourite in Asturias, Bar Blanco. You can read the full article (in English and Spanish) here.
November 2019
New story (writing + photography) for Iberia Excelente (business class in-flight magazine), a road trip across one of Spain’s most exciting wine regions, Ribeira Sacra. The story focuses on a brilliant host, Francisco Almuíña, who overcame his traumatic vision loss after a workplace accident and now shows visitors the land of his childhood through the senses, sharing all his knowledge on the nature, traditions, vineyards and local foods of the area. The story also focuses on Pedro Rodríguez, of Guímaro winery, a third-generation winemaker and his terroir-driven wines.
July 2019
New photo work for natural wine magazine Pipette, featuring Clos Lentiscus winery. Located near Sitges (Spain), Manel produces his wines in family estate and so does Núria, his 18-year old daugther, who also makes her own. Written by Meg Bernhard.
June 2019
New work for Gourmets, and feeling privileged for having had a chance to interview the wine legend that is Steven Spurrier.
June 2019
Story about one of Spain’s most underrated wine regions, Cangas. Work for Condé Nast Traveler Spain. Read full story here.
May 2019
New writing and photo work for Saveur magazine, featuring a story very close to my heart: the incredible wines of Canary Islands.
April 2019
New work for Pasture, an indie food magazine, featuring Éric Trouille, owner of the charming bookshop Books for Cooks, in Notting Hill. Read the full piece here.
April 2019
New work for Spanish Wine Lover, featuring some of the best restaurants to drink Spanish fine wine in London. See the piece (available both in English and Spanish) here.
January 2019
Very excited to share my first piece for Spanish Wine Lover, a publication I really enjoy reading. See the piece (available both in English and Spanish) here.
November 2018
New work (writing + photography) for Food and Wine magazine. The story, published in the Spanish edition, focuses on the young winemakers of Tenerife. When I was on the Canary Islands earlier this year, I was lucky enough to spend time with talented local wine producers. Their dedication and their love of the craft of winemaking made a deep impression on me. The feature appears in the November 2018 edition, edited in Mexico and available on newsstands now.
October 2018
It’s been an absolute joy to spend some time with Dolores Cabrera of La Araucaria winery in her beautiful vineyards on Tenerife. My visit was tremendously inspiring and I feel grateful for having had this opportunity. To read this story and many others on interesting small natural wine producers, please buy your copy of Pipette magazine and support independent journalism here.
September 2018
New story for SHOP magazine featuring some of the most exciting bars to drink natural wine right now in Copenhagen.
