Spanish wine
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Search complete. 12 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Spanish wine".
Sep 23, 2026
John LongshoreHOST
Okay.
Barry McKnightHOST
"If one of the two won and you could only drink their wines, would you want Spanish or Argentine?"
John LongshoreHOST
Huh.
Barry McKnightHOST
"Both wines are quite good." I'm not a wine guy.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
So these factors help explain Priorat's premium prices.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
Priorat is classified as DOQ, the Catalan equivalent of DOCA.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
Moving south along the Mediterranean coast, we reach Valencia, Jumila and Yecla in the Levant.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
The climate here is hot, sunny and dry.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
Let's talk a little about the Spanish wine laws.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
DO identifies wines from a defined region that follow regulations governing grape varieties and production.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
DOCA or DOQ in Catalunya is used for regions with a long record of quality.
Gill Gordon SmithHOST
Rioja and Priorat are the required examples here.
EmilyNARRATOR
She's obsessed with Sicilian reds." A lie, or at least a rearrangement of the truth.
EmilyNARRATOR
I knew Two Rivers didn't carry Sicilian reds, only Spanish and French.
EmilyNARRATOR
A small detail, meaningless on its own, but in context, it felt damning.
EmilyNARRATOR
That Friday, I tried to torch my doubts.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Mm.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
How did he develop a taste for Spanish wine? Where did he even get the money to buy all this stuff, you know? Like, those kinds of facts are very, very interesting to me, and they do help that person seem alive in my mind.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
Uh, it's a little frustrating as a h- uh, as a, somebody who writes about history, it's frustrating when you can't find any of that, uh-
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Right
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Jeff O'NeillHOST
Um, the main character, Esperanza Cordero, she's a tween, we'd call her now.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
I think she's 12, and she g- she turns 13 over the course of a book.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
It follows a year of her life in this neighborhood of Chicago, where there's a bunch of people of Spanish and Latin American descent, Latina all over the place, and it's just following her life.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
And for so many people, this was a first experience in popular culture.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
Do you think it competes? I think it's more than complete.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
The misunderstanding is that people say, you know, this wine is for 20 bucks I can buy good wine, French wine or Spanish wine.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
And my argument is no, for 20 bucks that you pay for Armenian wine, you can buy maybe a good similar quality wine for 40, 60 dollars.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
We underprice Armenian wine because we're not known.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
So you buy a quality Armenian wine for $20, $25, same quality you cannot buy for French.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
For that money, you cannot buy French or Spanish or Italian wine.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
You have to pay a lot more to get that quality of wine.
Vahe BaloulianGUEST
You can buy cheap, crap Armenian that they sell in the supermarkets today, also in L.A. Has that happened?
Emma RubensteinGUEST
I do educational staff trainings for the, uh, staff as well.
Emma RubensteinGUEST
Um, you know, I use my, my resources from when I went to do the Tripa de la Brigada to do, you know, PowerPoint slides for my staff, being that, you know, I feel like most people, if you're going to be working in a Basque or a Spanish influenced restaurant, you have a basic understanding of at least maybe Rioja.
Emma RubensteinGUEST
So kind of diving deeper into Ribera del Duero, Valdeorras, um, Sherry, kind of doing more deep dives into things that are a little bit harder for just the normal server working in a, a place like that is able to handle, and breaking it down in a more approachable way.
Emma RubensteinGUEST
You know, we just did a wine dinner for, uh, Alberto Ortiz that was really fun with my boss, uh, Nick Yanez.
EmilyNARRATOR
With this odd blend of stubbornness and love that convinced me we could actually be that couple who made it through the gritty stretches, who were better for having faced temptation and dryness and fear.
EmilyNARRATOR
When the studio finally turned a profit, after three scary years of scraping by, we celebrated with a bottle of Spanish red, sitting on milk crates, legs tangled together, tired and wild-eyed and giddy.
EmilyNARRATOR
It felt like a promise.
EmilyNARRATOR
Even now our downtown loft is a symbol of that dream.
Lori BuddHOST
Sláinte! Hey, everybody.
Lori BuddHOST
I'm Lori Budd, a UC Davis winemaking program, Spanish wine scholar, Somme Day service, champagne and quote their own specialist, and a WSET level two graduate.
Lori BuddHOST
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Paul KalemkiarianHOST
And they're all French varietals.
Paul KalemkiarianHOST
So this French guy, there's no Spanish or American wines that solve the problems of the human race.
Paul KalemkiarianHOST
So I'm gonna give you an ailment and I'm gonna give you three choices.
Paul KalemkiarianHOST
to solve this problem.