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The best wine matches for Manchego, Berkswell and other hard sheep cheeses

The best wine matches for Manchego, Berkswell and other hard sheep cheeses

Posted on August 4 2020 at 07:28

Hard sheep cheeses are the winelover’s friend.

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They have empanadas in Galicia too plus an amazing home style monkfish stew cooked in Albariño. At @restaurantecasaboveda #riasbaixas
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Spectacularly steep vineyards and dramatic skies at @masaveubodegas Bodegas Fillaboa where it was cooler and greyer than in London #greenspain
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#riasbaixas #albarino #galicia #atlanticwine #vineyards #vines #winestagram #instawine #clouds #stormyskies

Seafood is taken super-seriously in this part of Spain. There are 3 different flavours of crab meat in the shell explained Javi Izurieta of @pazosenorans - the body meat (the sweetest), the leg meat (the most savoury) and the brown meat - the deepest in flavour. But they all went stunningly well with their 2022 albarino, a wine that’s just made for shellfish.
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Not maybe what you’d think of as the typical Spanish vineyard as the vines are trained on overhead poles to escape the humidity in this impossibly lush green leafy part of Spain.

#riasbaixas #albarino #vines #vineyard #galicia #presstrip

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