Sebastian. Drink cider and txakoli with pintxos in the Basque area. Save paella for Barcelona where one has a better chance of getting a good version though arroz is the specialty of the area. This board is full of posts on...

Other options include a Gruner Veltliner and a white Txakoli....

grilled. We had a Txakoli with dinner that was recommended by the sommelier when I told him my fondness for these Basque whites, and unfortunately I can’t recall the producer. The wine, which had a few years bottle age on it...

Txakoli! We had this for the first time close to the source in Bilbao a couple years ago. Back then I believe virtually none of it made it out of Spain, I’m now seeing some in the US. I recently found a Talai Berri (no...

. There was a lot of literature on the wines, and a display station with all the bottles. Many kinds of Txokoli. I didn’t know there was a txakoli tinto (red txakoli). I thought it was just a young white wine. So I learned...

at closing time) they had no Txakoli! and the bread was stale, still they were very friendly, including a bartender from Georgia, x SSR.

in this season. I miss that paella, and I was just recently describing the Txakoli that was a perrenial favorite on his wine list. I’ll see you there in October.

Txakoli (chock oh lee) or Txakolina is the wine name. From the Basque region. About $15-17. And some are cheaper. It’s a good find. Was it a little fizzy? The grape name is (love this) Hondarribi Zuri. It’s also got a...

that compliment but don’t over power the dish. The wine list has some very nice bottles in the $30-$40 range. A young, tart, crisp and slightly effervescent wine called Txakoli is a great way to start the meal with a couple...

That would be Txakoli Txomin Etxaniz, one of Spain’s “green wines”, and one of my favorites since the first time I tasted it. In fact that first time I had served it with mussels prepared with Hirogoyen’s...

For my palate, the wine pairing wouldn’t change since I love zippy acidity in food and wine. That said I’d go with an albarino, maybe some slight fizz from a vino verhde or txakoli, a vermentino (especially from...

tia pol not since the spring... uni panini is always good. i hope they have the txakoli on tap in the spring!

Basque wine, a txakoli by Talai Berri (photo 2). It had a nice mineral flavor, was slightly sparkling (what is termed a “crackling” wine), a thankfully reasonable alcohol level of 11% (so you can enjoy that third glass without...

with braised oxtail meat that had been pulled off the bone and blended with some veggies. They were floating on a pool of carrot sauce made with a bottle of Txakoli wine from the Basque region.

Perhaps that was the Txakoli de Getaria made by TXOMIN ETXANIZ, which is the producer whose wine is most commonly distributed locally. The label is the second from the bottom on the linked page. The low alcohol, perfume and crisp...