Tasting Recap ¡Wines of spain!

Spain's wealth of indigenous grape varieties and centuries of unique winemaking traditions make the Spanish wine landscape a fascinating region to explore. At this tasting, we explored the high-quality sparkling wines of the Penedes, the refreshing wines of Txakolina meant to be poured into the glass from several feet above, and a wine from a mind-bending Canary Island vineyard where individual vines are planted in volcanic pits to protect them from the wind.






Raventos 'de nit'
Penedes
Sparkling Rosé
from the forward-thinking winery of Raventos i Blanc. The winemaker's ancestor made the first sparkling wine in Spain after an inspirational visit to Champagne.


Bengoetxe Geteriako 
Txakolina
wild-yeast fermented, organicly farmed, unfiltered old-vine wine from the Hondarribi Zuri grape!


Vera de Estenas Bobal 
Utiel-Requena
old vines of the Bobal grape, from a producer who shows a different side of what Bobal can be...


Dolores Cabrera Fernandez 'La Araucaria'

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Canary Islands
a rare wine from the Canary Islands made from the Listan Negro grape. If you tried the Pipeño at last week's tasting, this wine is the centuries-old origin of Chile's Pais grape.  ​

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