The Vega Sicilia extravaganza

Those with long memories may remember that at the beginning of 2020, still blissfully ignorant of COVID-19, I published a set of New Year’s resolutions. The last but by no means least of them was to hope to achieve ‘less work, more perk’.

If ever there were an example of a perk at its most unbelievably attractive it was an event organised earlier this month by the owner of Vega Sicilia, the Ribera del Duero pioneer. Pablo Álvarez and his family...