Latest Spanishwine Podcast Episodes
SWE Ep. 185 - Zalema/Listan: Two Grapes from Huelva
Spanish Wine Experience - March 12, 2024 10:17 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsTime 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!
SWE Ep. 184 - Details Matter...
Spanish Wine Experience - February 06, 2024 10:54 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRegions, 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.
SWE Ep. 183 - Basque Bubbles!
Spanish Wine Experience - January 29, 2024 10:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRoque 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 accompan...
SWE Ep. 182 - Weird Grapes: Forastera
Spanish Wine Experience - January 24, 2024 10:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsTime 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!
SWE Ep. 181 - WE'RE BACK! Feat. Underwater Wine
Spanish Wine Experience - January 10, 2024 10:59 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWe. 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??
SWE Ep. 180 - Malaga
Spanish Wine Experience - March 28, 2023 16:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsA 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...
SWE Ep. 179 - All About Garnacha!
Spanish Wine Experience - March 20, 2023 10:34 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWelcome 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 ...
SWE Ep. 178 - Vermut, again....
Spanish Wine Experience - March 03, 2023 15:58 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWe'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 ...
SWE Ep. 177 - Spanish Alternatives
Spanish Wine Experience - February 17, 2023 16:50 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsSo, 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 a...
SWE Ep. 176 - Tostado do Ribeiro
Spanish Wine Experience - February 03, 2023 18:14 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsFINALLY! 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...
SWE Ep. 175 - Christmas-NY Round Up 2022
Spanish Wine Experience - December 21, 2022 16:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAnother 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 have been the highs and lows of this most bizarre year! Roque and Luke have already been drinking as they dive headfirst into the 2022 round up. See you in ...
SWE Ep. 174 - Sierra Sur de Jaen
Spanish Wine Experience - December 14, 2022 16:19 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsA 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! Deep down in the depths of eastern Andalucia is a tiny mountain viticultural area with only a couple of winemakers. The wine? Malaostia - great name - from Bo...
SWE Ep. 173 - Valles de Benavente
Spanish Wine Experience - December 08, 2022 10:49 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRoque 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 picked up a bottle of Prieto Picudo red from the miniscule Valles de Benavente region. Bodega Otero's 2014 reserva in fact! The question is, where the hell ...
SWE Ep. 172 - Pago de Tharsys
Spanish Wine Experience - November 10, 2022 18:40 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAnother 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 in DO Utiel-Requena is Pago Tharsys. They have a range of 'standard DO' wines as well as their own sparkling Cavas. But they also have a handful of DO Pago ...
SWE Ep. 171 - Very Old Wines
Spanish Wine Experience - October 11, 2022 09:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow 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 as Roque and Luke sampling wines from the 1960s! Yes, that's right, booze that has been sleeping for almost sixty years! Thanks to Toro Albala and their cre...
SWE Ep. 170 - Weird Grapes: Cayetana
Spanish Wine Experience - September 26, 2022 16:47 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis 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'll find out - hell, as they'll find out - it goes by many names and has been a historic figure hiding in the shadows for centuries.
SWE Ep. 169 - Terroir
Spanish Wine Experience - September 20, 2022 16:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAh yes, terroir, that most mysterious of words. So vague, so pretentious, so winey, so French. But, credit where credit is due, it is a great concept, an important concept and a useful way to think about wine. This week we talk about the idea of terroir by trying a new project from a winemaker w...
SWE Ep. 168 - Fiestas de la Vendimia!
Spanish Wine Experience - September 03, 2022 14:46 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIt'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 hope he makes it back alive. This week we want to take you through some of the best and most alocholic wine-fiestas in Spain!
SWE Ep. 167 - Summer Special!
Spanish Wine Experience - August 15, 2022 15:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHappy 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 Luke are on their holidays, so, to celebrate the season, they have thought up their perfect Spanish summer boxes for you to enjoy!
SWE Ep. 166 - Beyond Cava
Spanish Wine Experience - July 26, 2022 17:20 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis 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! A sparkling wine from...Lanzarote! That's right; there's more to Spanish sparkling wine than you'd think at first glance. To dive into the theme the boys ...
SWE Ep. 165 - VT Betanzos
Spanish Wine Experience - July 12, 2022 14:21 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsBetanzos? 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 an area usually associated with wine. Yet historically there was wine there and a few winemakers created VT Betanzos in an effort to promote their vinos! C...
SWE Ep. 164 - Back to Priorat
Spanish Wine Experience - July 05, 2022 15:45 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAs with many Spanish regions, back in 2019, just before the pandemic, Priorat underwent some big classification and structural changes. So we thought, given it's been a while, it was time to head back to Priorat and see what's going on. To accompany us a Vi de Vila from Cims de Porerra!
SWE Ep. 163 - All about Albariño
Spanish Wine Experience - June 04, 2022 09:59 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIt'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 grapes Albariño. To dive into the history, flavours, styles and regions of this fantastic grape they sample a Valencian version from Bodegas Hispano-Suizas.
SWE Ep. 162 - VC Cebreros
Spanish Wine Experience - May 28, 2022 09:42 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsVC Cebreros - how did this region escape us for so long?! Just out west, over the Madrid border, is a high altitude mountainous Vino de Calidad wine region called Cebreros up in the Sierra de Gredos. Today, with special guest Rick Fisher SWS, we sample a bottle of Viña de Ayer Albillo from winem...
SWE Ep. 161 - Weird Grapes: Maturana Blanca
Spanish Wine Experience - May 07, 2022 13:26 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMaturana 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 from Rioja. The crazy thing is that it's one of the oldest in the region! Roque and Luke are enjoying a bottle of Clipeo; an organic small production fancy p...
SWE Ep. 160 - Non-fortified sherry?
Spanish Wine Experience - April 23, 2022 08:35 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsSherry. That famously misunderstood wine; sometimes sweet, sometimes drier than bone dry. Always fortified. But what if a sherry winemaker decided to release a sherry...unfortified? Well that's what Luke and Roque have this week. A bottle of Socaire from VT Cadiz.
SWE Ep. 159 - Back to Bierzo
Spanish Wine Experience - April 18, 2022 08:27 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis 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 undergoing major changes to their rules and regs. So they plan to revisit and drink their way through the changes. This week Banzao's Godello Vino de Villa.
SWE Ep. 158 - The final blend
Spanish Wine Experience - April 11, 2022 08:24 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhat 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, but it’s not often talked about. Bordeaux is a blend, Rioja traditionally is a blend. Today we wanted to talk about blending with an awesome little wine that...
SWE Ep. 157 - Ageing rosado?
Spanish Wine Experience - March 28, 2022 18:58 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWe 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 of ageing a rosado. Can you barrel them and age them? Should you? And what do they taste like? This week they open a bottle of Huella de Aitana from Navarra...
SWE Ep. 156 - Weird Grapes: Canary Island Special
Spanish Wine Experience - March 21, 2022 10:13 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWe 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 we fuel your interest in discovering new varietals. And this week it's not one, not two, but five grapes all in one wine from the Canary Islands. Bimbache f...
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