Spanish Wine Experience

Luke Darracott & Roque Madrid

  • 35 minutes 40 seconds
    SWE Ep. 187 - Sweet Canary Wine!

    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. Dulce Salmor from the Viña Frontera COOP on the tiny island of El Hierro. Truly amazing stuff!

    20 November 2024, 4:19 pm
  • 36 minutes 35 seconds
    SWE Ep. 186 - Spain's Newest DO! Campo de Calatrava

    That's right, Spain has recently welcomed into the Denominación de Origen family another new regulated wine region. Eagle-eyed listeners might recognise the name as this used to be a VT. But not any more. So we crack a bottle of Phoenix by Quinta de Aves and talk all things DO!

    13 November 2024, 11:23 am
  • 35 minutes 26 seconds
    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!

    12 March 2024, 10:17 am
  • 44 minutes 50 seconds
    SWE Ep. 184 - 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.

    6 February 2024, 10:54 am
  • 39 minutes 21 seconds
    SWE Ep. 183 - 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! 

    29 January 2024, 10:04 am
  • 36 minutes 5 seconds
    SWE Ep. 182 - 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!

    24 January 2024, 10:27 am
  • 41 minutes 51 seconds
    SWE Ep. 181 - 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??

    10 January 2024, 10:59 am
  • 39 minutes 56 seconds
    SWE Ep. 180 - 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!

    28 March 2023, 4:02 pm
  • 39 minutes 58 seconds
    SWE Ep. 179 - All About Garnacha!

    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!

    20 March 2023, 10:34 am
  • 41 minutes 6 seconds
    SWE Ep. 178 - Vermut, again....

    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'

    3 March 2023, 3:58 pm
  • 39 minutes 2 seconds
    SWE Ep. 177 - Spanish Alternatives

    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.

    17 February 2023, 4:50 pm
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