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 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 pants bottle.
This week Roque and Luke head back to the realm of the Vinos de Pago, but this time to a small microclimate tucked away in the south of Navarra: Pago de Cirsus, DO Pago Finca Bolandín. They chat food pairings for Thanksgiving and blather on about glasses. Expect the usual levels of geekery and stupidity….
On their 100th official episode Roque and Luke decide to indulge in a broader topic. Roque hails from the southeast of the country, so they thought they’d take the opportunity to delve into the world of ‘Mediterranean Wines’. To help them they sampled two Sericis wines: a Bobal from Utiel Requena and a barrel-fermented Merseguera…
This week something a little different. Four different wines! Four?? That’s right. But not the usual glass-bottled, labelled, from the wine-shop variety, no. Vino a granel, or ‘bulk wine’ is all the wine that is not bottled. Roque was down in Murcia and brought back a red, a white, a vermouth, and a sherry, all…
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 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 winemaker…
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 people only know it in realtion with Rioja. Tempranillo is the superstar, but why? Where is it from and where is it planted? To dive into this mythical grape…
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