Spanish Wine Experience podcast

SWE Ep. 183 - Basque Bubbles!

1/29/2024

Spanish Wine Experience

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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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