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🍇 Grape varieties

The native grapes of Spain and what altitude, age and craft do to them.

Spatburgunder vs Garnacha de Gredos | a Spanish red beneath the sierra at sunset · Spanish Terroir
Grape varieties

Spatburgunder vs Garnacha de Gredos

How German Spatburgunder and high-altitude Gredos Garnacha compare: two pale, cool-climate elegant reds, and which one is the better buy today.

Adolfo Gatell··5 min
Chenin Blanc vs Godello: the textural whites | a Spanish red beneath limestone cliffs · Spanish Terroir
Grape varieties

Chenin Blanc vs Godello: the textural whites

Chenin Blanc vs Godello compared: two textural, mineral, ageworthy whites, how they differ, and why Godello is the Spanish answer for a Chenin palate.

Adolfo Gatell··7 min
Txakoli vs Albarino: Spain's coastal whites | a Spanish red beneath limestone cliffs · Spanish Terroir
Grape varieties

Txakoli vs Albarino: Spain's coastal whites

Txakoli vs Albarino compared: two Atlantic whites, where their grapes and coasts diverge, what each does at the table, and which to pour when.

Adolfo Gatell··5 min
Albariño vs Verdejo: Spain's two white answers | a Spanish red beneath limestone cliffs · Spanish Terroir
Grape varieties

Albariño vs Verdejo: Spain's two white answers

Albariño vs Verdejo: ocean against meseta, salt against fennel. How Spain's two favourite whites differ, what each pours best with, and which to list.

Adolfo Gatell··5 min
Garnacha vs Tempranillo: Spain's two red answers | a Tempranillo above sunset vineyards · Spanish Terroir
Grape varieties

Garnacha vs Tempranillo: Spain's two red answers

Garnacha vs Tempranillo compared honestly: structure, fruit, where each grape grows, what each does at the table, and which bottle to open first.

Adolfo Gatell··6 min
Mencía vs Pinot Noir: the slate cousin | an old vine beside a dark bottle at dusk · Spanish Terroir
Grape varieties

Mencía vs Pinot Noir: the slate cousin

Mencía vs Pinot Noir compared: how Bierzo's slate grape echoes Burgundy, where the two diverge, what each costs, and which to pour when.

Adolfo Gatell··6 min
A wine bottle on a green terraced Spanish hillside vineyard at golden hour
Grape varieties

Albariño beyond freshness

Lees-aged, oxidative and late-released Albariño: the dialects beyond the crisp export style, what each tastes like, and the bottles that prove the grape ages.

Adolfo Gatell··5 min
A red wine bottle beside a gnarled old Garnacha bush vine on stony high ground at sunset
Grape varieties

The quiet power of old-vine Garnacha

What altitude and old vines do to Garnacha: how Sierra de Gredos turns a misunderstood workhorse into a pale, perfumed, Burgundy-shaped red, and the bottles to taste it.

Adolfo Gatell··6 min