195 episodes
Spanish Wine Experience Luke Darracott & Roque Madrid
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A fun, yet educational, alcoholic journey through the Spanish world of wine.
Join us as we drink our way through what this country, and this city, have to offer!
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SWE Ep. 185 - Zalema/Listan: Two Grapes from Huelva
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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Details Matter...
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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Basque Bubbles!
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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Weird Grapes: Forastera
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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WE'RE BACK! Feat. Underwater Wine
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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Malaga
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!
Customer Reviews
Amazing podcast
Funny, irreverent, cheeky, informative: there aren’t enough adjectives to adequately describe these episodes but the guys have really invigorated my passion to discover Spanish wines and made me a customer of their shop. Great job Roque and Luke!
Jamie Oliver of wine meets cool Spanish mate for unpretentious yet set legit Vino education.
Stumbled across this while studying for the US based Spanish Wine scholar qualification. (Which is almost as geeky as Luke, but a lot less interesting, and certainly less entertaining.) In fact listening to these two guys was about the only thing that kept me smiling through the Spanish Wine Scholar studying period! Luke is for Spanish wine what Jamie Oliver once was for British food (a long time ago). As in very well versed, totally onto it, but also at last completely devoid of pomposity. And Roque makes sure Luke stays suitably un-pomposityish! Truth be told: without Roque Luke would risk collapsing into the usual
wine-expert ridiculousness! Thank You Roque for saving him! SUMMARY: If you want to really learn about Spanish wine - all 60 + DO and 40+ VT . Listen to this podcast and save the money you might have spent on the Spanish Wine Guild Course!
Keep it up boys: So to speak!
Easy way to learn Spanish wines
Great supplemental material for those studying in the Spanish wine scholar or WSET level 3 program.