Spanish Wine Experience

Luke Darracott & Roque Madrid

  • 36 minutes 59 seconds
    SWE Ep. 190 - Redefining Rioja

    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 changing in the last couple of years. So with a bottle of Brunes by Bodegas Vivanco in our glasses, we chat singular vineyards, village wines, intriguing grapes and bubbles!

    20 December 2024, 9:28 am
  • 33 minutes 34 seconds
    SWE Ep. 189 - Cabernet Franc

    A slightly differente episode today. We decide to celebrate International Cab Franc Day by diving into the life and history of this French grape. Or...is it French? We sample a bottle of Abadal Franc from the tiny Catalan DO of Pla de Bagès! 

    13 December 2024, 9:22 am
  • 39 minutes 39 seconds
    SWE Ep. 188 - Almeria

    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 making a delicious red in the middle of cowboy country. Sierra Almagrera is a blended tinto from a region not usually famed for viticulture, so is it any good?

    5 December 2024, 11:42 am
  • 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
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