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Visiting Wineries in Spain?
that overlooks the cove (pic below) — take the funicular up. Local, lively white wine is txakoli. “Is San Sebastián the best place to eat in Europe?” — an article in the Guardian:...
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Where to buy Spanish wine?
I’m loving Spanish whites (especially txakoli) during this hot weather, and I’ve found a few at K&L and some others at the Spanish Table in Berkeley. Anybody know where else to find some good bottles? Thanks.
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why wines are a tad bit effervescent?
It can be good in the right context, e.g. Talai Berri’s red Txakoli.
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Help, ethnic lunch in Fullerton, Anaheim, Placentia?
, which is a Barcelona-based chain of tapas bars that opened its first US branch in downtown Fullerton, on Harbor between Wilshire and Chapman. It’s meant to be washed down with copious quantities of wine. Red is...
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Ideas please: wine and cheese party
Second albarino. These two obscure Spanish whites (and slightly frizzy) are perfect for a hot summer evening with a salty finger foods: - Txakoli And Cava producer Avinyo makes a wine from muscat called Avinyó Vi D’Agulla
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Txori
-size pintxos, drinks a glass of the local sparkling wine (txakoli), and pays for it all before leaving, reciting the total to the cashier or bartender. I must admit that after a couple hours I had some “fuzzy math”,...
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Spanish eating
(awesome dry hard cider made in Basque country), and txakoli (the young white wine drunk by the Basques). Also are there Spanish or Catalonian restaurants worth visiting in the Chicago area? I’ve been to Cafe Iberico and...
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Fans of Spanish cuisine...what should I serve with this?
Well, I always seem to get Pappas w/pimenton served w/my fish so that’s a possibility. But..since you’re almost next door to Galicia (food wise)why not some grelos and of course for wine an Albarino or better yet a...
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Summer Wines
Verdejo, grenache blanc, albarino, tons of rose, txakoli
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Goose foie gras
We brought three imported whites to Hunan: Gruner Veltliner, Txakoli, and Mosel Riesling, but no Tokaji. For one of my birthday parties in the spring, I hosted a girls' cooking retreat. I served up a light lunch of salad,...
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L'auberge Basque, Outside St Jean de Luz/San Sebastian
. Le Marmitako des pecheurs, refroidi aux Txakoli, patates douces au piment d’Espelette (tuna a la Marmitako (a Basque stew), cooled in Txakoli, with sweet potatoes and Espelette pepper): Simply wonderful and perfectly of...
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ISO pairing with clams, fennel, spicy Ital. sausage
chacoli is actually spelled txakoli if you are looking for it.
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A Few Days in NYC- Delicious
was a bottle of white wine from Spain (in keeping with the Spanish theme- Spanish mackerel), Txakoli, Ulacia 2007, from the Basque region. It was, as they say, pétillant (ever so slightly effervescent) and uncomplicated. 44 ½...
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Are there any nice spanish restaruants?
-Spanish wine list and while we only ordered a few glasses of the txakoli, as we decided to peruse an aged Rioja from my stash at $15 corkage fee per bottle (I’m glad that we brought our own stems), it was quite nice and...
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Passionfish in Pacific Grove
not disappoint. The list was varied, and had many interesting selections in the $20 range. We had a bottle of a Basque wine — Txomin Etxaniz Txakoli (how’s that for a mouthful?), which proved very enjoyable from start...
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