195 episodes
Spanish Wine Experience Luke Darracott & Roque Madrid
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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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
Listen and laugh!
Amazing resource in Spanish wine. Love every episode.
Sometimes problematic
I must mention that the podcast has been quite informative and mostly enjoyable mmm but it's def not suitable for everyone due to several problematic intrusive thoughts from the hosts. In one episode (Garnacha grave variety I believe), there's a warning about increasing Chinese wine production, revealing an orientalist bias from one of the hosts. I just finished listening another one (Vino de Pitarra) where the other host makes insensitive remarks about the People of Extremadura calling them the R-word because how their accent sound. TBH despite the informative content, these cringe-worthy moments have deterred me from recommending the podcast.
Mourning routines
Since I discovered these 2 funny still knowledgeable guys everytime I drive to work I turn on their podcast and learn on the way. Real pleasure. Thanks for sharing!