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SWE Ep. 70 - Txakoli de Bizkaia / Bizkaiko Txakolina

Spanish Wine Experience

Release Date: 01/11/2018

SWE Ep. 185 - Zalema/Listan: Two Grapes from Huelva show art SWE Ep. 185 - Zalema/Listan: Two Grapes from Huelva

Spanish Wine Experience

Time for a weird grape double edition. Huelva, an episode we have been to before years ago, known for its sherry-esque wines and sweet vinos. We have a bottle of Líbero, a fascinating 50/50 blend of two grapes only found in this Andalusian hideaway: Zalema and Listan de Huelva. Enjoy!

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SWE Ep. 184 - Details Matter... show art SWE Ep. 184 - Details Matter...

Spanish Wine Experience

Regions, grapes, statistics, numbers, facts and figures; over the last few years we've covered a lot. So, over a bottle of very alcoholic red wine (Loxarel OPS) this week we have decided to compile all the main stats of the Spanish wine world. ALL of them! Lots of pub quiz answers to be found.

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SWE Ep. 183 - Basque Bubbles! show art SWE Ep. 183 - Basque Bubbles!

Spanish Wine Experience

Roque loves sparkling wines. Luke loves the Basque Country. If only there was a way to bring these two things together. Well there is! The Pais Vasco is famous for its crisp white wines, but a few producers are making reds, roses, sweet wines and bubbles. This week a bottle of Izar Leku accompanies a podcast full of wine, history, and the usual ridiculous jokes! 

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SWE Ep. 182 - Weird Grapes: Forastera show art SWE Ep. 182 - Weird Grapes: Forastera

Spanish Wine Experience

Time for another episode of 'what the hell grape is that?!' Roque spent New Year in the Canary Islands, lucky bugger, but he still did his job and brought us back a bottle of something weird from Tenerife using a very rare grape from another island entirely: Forastera!

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SWE Ep. 181 - WE'RE BACK! Feat. Underwater Wine show art SWE Ep. 181 - WE'RE BACK! Feat. Underwater Wine

Spanish Wine Experience

We. Are. Back. We have been away since March 2023! Why? Where were we? What have we been up to? All will be explained. Also, we enjoy an amazing gift from listeners Sheree and Ian; an Albariño aged...underwater??

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SWE Ep. 180 - Malaga show art SWE Ep. 180 - Malaga

Spanish Wine Experience

A SHOCKING DISCOVERY! We never got round to recording a podcast about Malaga and its delicous sweet, fortified, aged, oxidised wines. We did Sierras de Malaga years ago, but not Malaga DO. After facepalming Roque and Luke get down to business with a bottle of Vino Maestro from Bodega Doña Felisa and chat all things boozy from the Costa del Sol!

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SWE Ep. 179 - All About Garnacha! show art SWE Ep. 179 - All About Garnacha!

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Welcome to a new version of an old podcast that was lost. Sounds kind of mysterious right? Years ago Roque and Luke did a podcast all about the grape Garnacha. It was lost in the cloud and never uploaded properly. So, now with a shop full of that grape, they return to the wonderful world of the Garnacha grape!

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SWE Ep. 178 - Vermut, again.... show art SWE Ep. 178 - Vermut, again....

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We're back on the vermouth again! Not since back in 2018 have we focused on this amazing Spanish delicacy. And back then, prior to our shop, we didn't know what we know now and we didn't have our own vermut! This week we want to go over Spanish vermouth again, but with more knowledge and market experience. And, of course, we be drinkin'

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SWE Ep. 177 - Spanish Alternatives show art SWE Ep. 177 - Spanish Alternatives

Spanish Wine Experience

So, you're visiting Spain, or perhaps you just fancy something español for dinner to mix it up a bit, but don't know what to choose. You like Cab Sav, or maybe a Chianti. So what would be a Spanish version of that? This week Roque and Luke dive into Spanish alternatives to most the main grapes and regions around the world.

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SWE Ep. 176 - Tostado do Ribeiro show art SWE Ep. 176 - Tostado do Ribeiro

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FINALLY! After years of trying to locate this wine, painstaking effort of behalf of us pestering distributors, we managed to get one: a bottle of Tostado do Ribeiro from bodega Viña Costeira up in DO Ribeiro. It also, happily, timed well with a recent visit to the Galician wine region itself. So time to revisit a little this odlest of DOs and sample, for the first time, this mythical sweet wine!

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This week Roque and Luke take a final trip to the Basque Country with a bottle of Txacoli from their last teaming region: DO Txakoli de Bizkaia / Bizkaiko Txakolina from the Itsasmendi winery off the crashing Atlantic coast. They talk winemaking challenge and effects and have a special interview! Enjoy!