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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!
We are back! Sorry for the gaps. Our new shop makes us very busy these days! But we have something rare and special. A wine from the Picos d...
It's almost Christmas! So to end off the year prior to this festive we are heading back to the big boy himself: La Rioja. Things have been c...
A slightly differente episode today. We decide to celebrate International Cab Franc Day by diving into the life and history of this French g...
Yee haw and giddy up! This week Roque and Luke head down to the depths of Almeria, towards the long coast of southeast Spain to a winery mak...
Today Roque and Luke talk vertical tastings, wine events, and enjoy a very rare bottle of one of the finest sweet wines they've ever tried....
That's right, Spain has recently welcomed into the Denominación de Origen family another new regulated wine region. Eagle-eyed listeners mig...
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...
Regions, grapes, statistics, numbers, facts and figures; over the last few years we've covered a lot. So, over a bottle of very alcoholic re...
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 P...
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 j...
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 ama...
A SHOCKING DISCOVERY! We never got round to recording a podcast about Malaga and its delicous sweet, fortified, aged, oxidised wines. We did...
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...
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,...
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 lik...
FINALLY! After years of trying to locate this wine, painstaking effort of behalf of us pestering distributors, we managed to get one: a bott...
Another year in the shop, another year in wine, and other year in the world of wine. What's changed? What have we enjoyed drinking and what...
A wonderfully niche Vino de la Tierra this week. About as niche as you can get. Vino de la Tierra Sierra Sur de Jaen. Quite the mouthful! De...
Roque and Luke managed to find another of the rare Vino de Calidad regional wines. On a recent trip to the Leon area in the northwest, Luke...
Another Vino de Pago here; one we've been enjoying for quite some time now as they do things a little different in this winery. Tucked away...
How old can wine be? Should we be buying wine and waiting? What makes a wine worthy of ageing? All these burning questions will be answered...
This week Roque and Luke try perhaps the most influential grape no-one's ever heard of and that you'll rarely find: Cayetana. Though, as you...
Ah yes, terroir , that most mysterious of words. So vague, so pretentious, so winey, so French. But, credit where credit is due, it is a gre...
It's party time in many parts of Spain! And why? Well, it's the vendimia, the grape harvest. And Roque is about to head down to one; we all...
Happy Summer everybody!! Lordy lordy it has been hot here in Spain the last few weeks, and we are still way off the cool days. Roque and Luk...
This week bubbles! So you know Roque is happy. And not just any bubbles. It's not Cava, it's not CORPINNAT, it's not even from the peninsula...
Betanzos? What's a Betanzos when it's at home? Well, it's a small town in the far north of Galicia near the crashing Atlantic coast, and not...
As with many Spanish regions, back in 2019, just before the pandemic, Priorat underwent some big classification and structural changes. So w...
It's time for another grape-centric podcast. We have alreasdy covered Garnacha and Tempranillo and now it's time for the King of the white g...
VC Cebreros - how did this region escape us for so long?! Just out west, over the Madrid border, is a high altitude mountainous Vino de Cali...
Maturana what now? Yes, that's right; we're back with another weird grape. This week it's a vitually non-planted and unknown white variety f...
Sherry. That famously misunderstood wine; sometimes sweet, sometimes drier than bone dry. Always fortified. But what if a sherry winemaker d...
This week Roque and Luke head back to Bierzo; one of their favourite DOs. Why? Well, since 2019 a lot of Spanish wine regions have been unde...
What goes into a wine? Grapes? Sure. Fermented ones? That's right. And sometimes more than one type. The idea of a blended wine isn't new, b...
We have had only a few rose wines - or rosados - on the podcast over the few years. But something we've never really touched on is the idea...
We love the weird grapes episodes. It's always fun for us to take you a world of wine that is marvellously off the beaten track in the hope...
Yes, you read that correctly! Over the many years of giving winetastings we have been asked countless times 'Is supermarket wine any good?'...
Have you heard of Tempranillo? Of course you have. But do you really know about it? It is Spain's premier red grape of course, but most peop...
Yes, you read that correctly, Juan Ibañez. Could be the name of a Spanish bloke; but no, it's a grape! Actually it goes by many weird names...
This week something a little different. Four different wines! Four?? That's right. But not the usual glass-bottled, labelled, from the wine-...
Well aren't we all lucky that Roque had a little alcohlic jaunt with his family to the paradise island of Menorca recently. Fortunately, bei...
¿Qué deberías hacer si eres una famosa bodega de culto de la Ribera del Duero? Dirigirse al sur de La Mancha y empezar a hacer un vino de Pa...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Following a few weeks off - due to Christmas, New Year, Three Kings and a lot of craziness in the shop, Roque and Luke are...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Following a few weeks off - due to Christmas, New Year, Three Kings and a lot of craziness in the shop, Roque and Luke are...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Following a few weeks off - due to Christmas, New Year, Three Kings and a lot of craziness in the shop, Roque and Luke are...
Another week and yes, another Vino de Pago! They've been popping up on our radar and we've been snagging them when we are able. This week we...
This week Roque and Luke are bringing you a wine that is the niche'st of the niche. You may have not heard of the region Almeria; it's a sma...
What's that? Two weird grapes in a row? Well yes! There are so many in this wonderful country and we just got one in the shop that we just h...
We are back again at this Halloween time of the year with another weird grape; an island grape at that. Mallorca has a few local varieties t...
Another week, another yummy wine, and another return to the wonderful world of the Vinos de Pago. This week Roque and Luke have a bottle of...