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Spanish wine for an Indonesian rijsttafel | sunset over an old-vine vineyard · Spanish Terroir
Pairing

Spanish wine for an Indonesian rijsttafel

Spanish wine for the Indonesian rijsttafel: how sambal, coconut and sweet soy rewrite the rules, why tannin loses, and the four pours that survive the table.

Adolfo Gatell··7 min
Spanish wine tastings in Amsterdam | the Spanish Terroir bottle in high-altitude vineyards · Spanish Terroir
Tasting

Spanish wine tastings in Amsterdam

Spanish wine tastings in Amsterdam: home and on-location formats, English-language flights for expats, what six wines should tell, and how to source it.

Adolfo Gatell··5 min
Spanish wines for plant-based tasting menus | sunset over an old-vine vineyard · Spanish Terroir
Pairing

Spanish wines for plant-based tasting menus

Spanish wines for plant-based tasting menus: why vegetables rewrite pairing logic, the vegan fining question answered honestly, and a course-by-course arc.

Adolfo Gatell··6 min
A glass of Spanish red wine beside a map of Spain marking Rioja, Ribera del Duero and Priorat
Sommelier

Building a Spanish by-the-glass program

Which Spanish styles earn their place in an open bottle, and how to build a by-the-glass list that sells itself in an Amsterdam dining room: the anchor, the white, the wildcard.

Adolfo Gatell··5 min
A wine bottle on the broken slate and quartz stones of a steep Priorat vineyard at sunset
Regions

Understanding the soils of Priorat

Llicorella is not one rock. A field guide to the slate, schist and quartz that make Priorat speak, and the slate-grown Spanish reds that let you taste the idea.

Adolfo Gatell··5 min
A bottle of Spanish Terroir red wine on a stony ridge above Spanish vineyards at sunset
Sommelier

Spanish wine for an Amsterdam dining room

Why the Spanish wines that succeed in an Amsterdam dining room are chosen for the local table, the spice and the canal-house light, not for the map of Spain.

Adolfo Gatell··5 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
A glass of Spanish wine beside a carved stone relief map of Spain among old vines
Pairing

Pairing oxidative Spanish whites

How to pair Spain's saline, nutty, low-fruit whites: our unfortified Jerez Palomino with broth, cured meat and aged cheese, and the late-harvest white for the sweet end.

Adolfo Gatell··7 min
A bottle of Rioja Tempranillo on a rock above rolling Rioja vineyards at sunset
Regions

Rioja without clichés

Rioja beyond the oak-and-vanilla caricature: how the region moved to village wines, revived its whites and looked past the ageing labels, and where to taste it.

Adolfo Gatell··6 min