And this time the venerable Tempranillos were not from Rioja but from Spain’s other great red wine region, Ribera del Duero on the banks of the river known over the Portuguese border to the west as the Douro. Pablo Álvarez with a magnum of Vega Sicilia Único Pablo Álvarez, the...
Often the old word disappeared altogether. In many cases, however, the new word and the old continued in use side by side on a roughly equal footing. This had produced pairs of words which are both in use today, like shut and close or buy and purchase, in which the second word of ea...