29. Inside Spanish Wine Culture And A Family Micro-Winery

Spain’s wine isn’t just a tasting note—it’s a way of living that turns an ordinary lunch into a small celebration. We dive into the everyday elegance of drinking by the glass, the surprising value you can find under ten euros, and the regional gems that make Spain a world leader by vineyard area and character. From cava’s crisp sparkle to buttery local whites and deep, contemplative reds, we sketch a map you can actually drink, matching mood and meal without the snobbery.

We share a favourite field trip: Masos de Guadalest, a family micro-winery tucked into the mountains near Guadalest. It’s intimate, thoughtful, and beautifully run—a place where three-wine tastings come with simple tapas, olive oil flights, and a tour that explains why staying small keeps quality high. The family’s project doubles as rural revival, proving that craft hospitality can bring life back to mountain towns without losing authenticity. Think curated experiences, fair pricing, and a view you’ll carry home with the bottles.

Along the way, we weigh tortilla against the briny punch of a gilda, admit our rosé reluctance, and celebrate the joy of cava at any hour. We chart the must-know regions—Rioja’s age-worthy tempranillo, Catalonia’s traditional-method sparkling, Galicia’s seafood-loving Albariño, and the Basque Country’s zippy Txakoli poured from a height. Then our slice of life takes a lively detour to Trinidad Carnival prep, complete with a mango chow that set our mouths on fire and a shout-out to our band and costumes. It’s all tied together by a Spanish phrase we love: al pan, pan; y al vino, vino—call things what they are, including your taste.

If this blend of practical tips, regional highlights, and real-life adventures speaks to you, hit follow, subscribe, and leave a comment with your favourite Spanish bottle or tapas pairing. Got questions or local tips? Email us at Ola at madeinspainpodcast.com and join the conversation. Cheers.

Transcript

Hosts And Today’s Theme

SPEAKER_01 0:06

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Listener Tapas Favourites

SPEAKER_02 0:15

Welcome to Made in Spain. I'm your host, Nalini Sharma, along with Laura Cost. Laura Sr. Nice to be here, everyone. Yeah, this is uh turning out to be an exciting year. We've got a lot to talk about, and we thought, why not why not talk about wine as well as whining, which is let's just save that for slice of life. Yeah, we're gonna talk about that in slice of life. So wine and wining with an H. Right. Which will be explained in moments. In mere moments. But Spain is known as, I mean, one of the top in the top three wine producers in terms of volume and quality throughout the world on a yearly basis. And we're very lucky. One of the cool things about doing this podcast is having the ability to kind of explore, sometimes just in our own backyard. We're gonna tell you a little bit about a winery that's very close to where we live. Not I mean it's 10 minutes from where I live. We'll get to that in a second. But we first want to deal with a viewer question or a listener question, which we get asked this a lot. So I didn't really put a name to it, but food, obviously, very big. What is your favorite tapas?

SPEAKER_01 1:41

What's your favorite tapa? I'd love to hear from you first. Yeah. I I know that is true. Because every time we go to a market or we go to a bar or we go anywhere, Nalini's like, oh, there's tortilla.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

And I for yeah, it's like an emotional reaction.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

It's like tortilla.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

Okay, this is yeah, a refresher when you people, you know, you say tortilla, people might think it's the tortilla as in the shell. You know, the flat good point. Yeah, that is not what tortilla is here. Tortilla is it's an egg and potato for like a quiche or a pie.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

Basically, it's potato, eggs, and olive oil, and a bit of salt, and in some cases, onions. But that's like the whole that's another can of worms. Yeah, let's do that.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

That we don't want to talk about that. Some people put onions, some people don't. So that's yeah, but that is really my favorite. And I mean they always kind of serve it with a you know, a little pincho on a bit of bread, bread, and I yeah, it's all has always been my favorite and will continue to be my favorite.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Next the next few episodes and the next few trips that we make, I am going to make it a point to go to a few special places where you can try some unique tortillas. Yeah. Because there are some really different variations. Like I know there's like a bar that I went to that had the tortillas, almost using them as like bread where they cut them in the middle and they put all this stuff inside, and it's like very unique. So knowing how much you like tortilla, I think we should make a point of doing some exploration. After carnival, Laura. Yes, not prior. Can you see that we are kind of getting more passionate about our food talks and both of us are really kind of watching what we eat? We might be hungry, that's why. Correct, correct. So for me, I think my favorite tapa, and it is a classic, but it's the gilda. I just love gildas and it's quite funny. Every time I try to convince Lalini, my husband, other people around me to try and have boquerones and anchovies and all of these things that usually come in the gilda. I always get this.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

I like it with the anchovy, yeah, because it's salty. I don't like it with the anchovy that's in the like the acid, the boqueroni. Yeah, the pickle. That one I don't like, but I do really like the one with the anchovy, it's salty, it's a really good um thing to have when you're having a drink.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yes. Um, I have just with a beer, with a glass of white wine, whatever it is. I think gildas are just amazing. And you know, there's so much variation. So if you want to look up what that looks like, that's G-I-L-D-A. And we have the whole story behind us in another episode that we did a little while back. So thank you very much for joining us. Please make sure that if you're not following along, please follow, subscribe, leave a comment. Doing those things allows us to continue to grow this project and really move it forward, which is our passion. So we could not be any more grateful for you coming along on this journey.

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Spanish Wine Preferences

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Yeah, and our you can always email us at Ola at madeinspainpodcast.com. So yay! All right, and you can start your email by saying hola. Yes. Um, Spanish wine. Do you have a favorite, Laura?

SPEAKER_01 5:04

This is going to sound extremely bougie, but I'm owning it. And it's um oh my god. What is it? It's just it totally escaped my mind now, but uh you go first. You go first.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

I need to Okay, I prefer to drink sparkling, so bubbles, cava. I really enjoy Kava. We had it in the last couple of episodes one of the cavas from the Alicante region, Masette, voted as the best in the world in terms of Kava. So that happens to be one of my favorite, at least right now. I do really very much enjoy that. And I also I don't mind cheap white wine. I can be fancy, but I can also be pretty basic. I am not the person to open a very expensive bottle of wine with because I will not necessarily appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

I think 90% of the time it goes wasted on me. I will have to look this up later or look because it uh for just some reason I just blanked, but it is a it is a red wine that Julio Iglesias was actually very involved in. Right, okay. And it is more on the expensive side. I've only had Vega Cicilia. Okay, oh thank you, that was gonna kill me. So Vega Cecilia, and it is a very expensive wine, but I've had it like a couple of times in my life. Maybe it was because of the situation, right? Because of the pomp and circumstance around it, but it did taste amazing. So, and I think their kind of cheapest bottle is like almost a couple hundred euros. Oh wow, yeah, so it is expensive, but it is very, very special. It's a very deep kind of red that you know, if you're having like a special meat or a special meal, or even if not with food, just kind of enjoying the red wine, it's very special. And I know that it was definitely very high on Mr. Iglesias', you know, he loved it. And I think at one point he was actually involved with the winery.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

Oh, interesting. All right.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

Vega Cecilia, send it a bottle.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

All right, so we have a winery very close to us in Guadalajara, and it is called the name of the winery Masos de Guadalajest. And what a magical place it is. We went recently. We've been, you've been a few times.

Masos De Guadalest Winery Tour

SPEAKER_01 7:22

We went maybe I think with you twice with some friends from the US once or three times total.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Yeah, so it's a really special winery. It's relatively new. It's small, it's very small, but what a magical afternoon. I think you can go up there. And also, I mean, this is for people who if you even if you don't drink wine, they have olive oil production, so you can do that tasting instead. Um, and they also have a tasting menu, which can or cannot include wine, so it's totally up to you.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

We haven't done the food tasting. The food tasting, I think, is like five or six courses, but it was still very reasonable. The first time I went, so I'm kind of I think I'm leading up to the big kind of five or six courses. The first time I went, I did the very basic tasting, right? Which was 15 euros, and that was three different kinds of wine: the white, the red, and the rose. We had that when we went, yeah. And they brought out a few little tapas. Now, when we went, we had the 35 euros. But that included the whole tour. Yes, it included the tour, it included seeing the production, and it included also you saw it, some food and some embutidos, and they accommodated us, said you don't eat pork, and they actually kind of brought out a solely cheese plate. Right. Uh, so that was really cool. And then the next level up is you do the food tasting.

Family Project And Rural Revival

Tasting Options And Pricing

SPEAKER_02 8:51

Right. Now, I think what's special about the winery is that it's family run. They have basically revived this area, you know, and opened this winery. It is, they they consider it to be a family project for the siblings, the parents that are involved. And it is, I would say it's a micro winery, it's quite small, but the wine that they're producing is such high quality and very affordable, along with the olive oils that they're also harvesting there. Um they have the winery, they have the hotel.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

The hotel, I think, will be open next year. Right. They're in development, but that's gonna be special. So that's gonna be like a wine and olive oil themed hotel.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Uh they have the uh olive oil as well as their other business, and they're also they have preserved the family house, which I I am I'm mistaken, but they said it's kind of like a almost like a museum in a way. It's like a macia museum, yes. Yeah. So, and if anybody who's been to this area, if you know Guadalajest or when you're driving up the mountain, there's not a lot of things there. There are restaurants, and you have to get to Guadalajast, which is the town at the top with all the little weird museums. And again, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every single year. But it's such a magical thing to see a family invest in this and do it at such uh a really high level, so professional, so well organized. It is a stunningly beautiful place, and the tour itself is really very informative. It's very well done.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

It's like an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

Hour and a half. Um, did you of the three wines? We tried the white, the red, as well as the rose. What was your favorite?

Why Small Wineries Matter

SPEAKER_01 10:50

I don't know if I'm starting to be a little bit biased towards this. I used to like reds more, but I like the white. Me too. The white was very easy to drink. It was very buttery, it was kind of um sumptuous, if that's a word. Uh, I I as much as I want to love rosé, I have still to try a rose that I like. I am not a rose fan. For some reason, it just doesn't taste like wine to me.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Uh neither. We've agreed on this. I think to when I see people drinking rose wine, I think it looks super pretty. The color is so special. It I would like to like rose. Me too. I just don't. We'll be out somewhere and we'll look at another table and say, oh wow, that looks so nice, but we never order it because two of us don't.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Yeah. In my head, and I of course I know this is not the actual case. It literally tastes like you've taken white wine and put a few drops of red wine in it, and it's just wrong. It's like I know that's not the case, but obviously, but it is just, I don't know, it's something about the rose. But yeah, the Masos de Guadales totally recommended. It's the Vidal Balaguer family. Yes. And just we have some small tidbits here who have lived in this valley for generations, and after more than 100 years of this not actually being the family business, they're bringing it back a hundred years.

Spain’s Wine Culture And Scale

SPEAKER_02 12:14

Well, and I think the this is so important for people to understand is that while you have big cities such as a Madrid, a Barcelona, you know, uh whatever big city you want to name, what's hap-there's a word for it in Spanish where the the inner inner towns are emptying. What do they call that? It is there's a a phrase.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

I know they they talk about it where basically the towns that are in the mountains, that you know, where the families had the home for well, that's why you can in some of these places, and we will be doing soon an episode on properties, but in some of these places you can find crazily affordable properties because they are trying to bring back people to the rural areas.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

The rural areas that, by the way, have roads running through it. It's not as if you can't it there's paved roads. Water, electricity, there's everything there. Everything, it's just not a city. It's it's just not a big city. In the countryside. Exactly. It's in the countryside. So the fact that a family has put that time and effort and love and they're doing it at such a really high level.

Key Regions: Rioja, Cava, Albariño, Txakoli

SPEAKER_01 13:24

And they told us they could have grown more, right? They could have made it bigger, but they multiple times emphasized on wanting to keep the quality under control because the lady was explaining that up to X amount of these vineyards, uh, you can keep the quality at a certain level. Right. Over a certain amount, the consistency of the quality is very hard with the infrastructure for them to keep. So you'd have to grow exponentially to be able to still manage the quality. And I think it's uh here, I mean, you were talking about a very expensive wine, but in reality, if you can spend five euro, ten euro on a big not need to spend more than five to six euros to have an incredible bottle of wine in this country. I'm just really trying to get Vegas Etheria to sh like send us a bottle of red so you can try it. That's why I'm mentioning it several times. No, seriously, but you really don't have to. Like red wine here, white wine, rose for those who like it, very affordable, highly recommended. In most, not like the big chain supermarkets, but in most kind of smaller supermarkets, you could go in and ask someone there, what do you recommend? You know, and people will passionately recommend, you know, one or two. The other thing as well is like going online. Uh, again, if you're shopping from Spain, you can go on Amazon and find just about anything. Uh, but there are some you know specialized sites uh that do sell curated, you know, collections of what the you have one, you subscribe to that, the masette.

Links, Disclaimers, And Accessibility

SPEAKER_02 15:05

The masette. Yeah. So they and they just bring it to my house when I'm done. You just phone them and they bring another case. It's very convenient. But if you're going, I mean, I know there's just like really large wineries where you can book a tour. You can I would encourage anybody to just go out there and find the small little family-run business because you have a really curated experience, you have a beautiful view, a lovely afternoon, have a couple of glasses, uh, you know, take a taxi. Yes. Um, don't drink and drive. But just you learn so much more.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

And it's just beautiful to be able to support mo family-run businesses or smaller businesses, or people who are more entrepreneurial in in nature than just these like super large, you know, conglomerates that you're going to get when you go to the very, very large wineries. Again, nothing against the large wineries. No, it's just not the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

And it was very funny that when we were, we went um that most of the people because everybody was dressed quite nicely. Yeah. You know, everybody had on really nice outfits and sort of curated, because I guess they knew they were gonna take photos, right? It's kind of like, ugh, date afternoon. Exactly. But I said to her at one point, I said, everybody is here to look at this place as a wedding venue. Like every any couple that's here right now, they're here to see if they're gonna have their wedding here.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Which was hilarious because at one point I heard one gentleman leaning in and going, So do you do weddings here?

SPEAKER_02 16:38

Right. And they were couples were discussing the cocktail bar could go here. Here we could have like the sweet stand of like Yeah, and I said, I'm like, see, see, there everybody's here in their nice outfit to take pictures and to see if this would but honestly it is a beautiful spot for a ceremony or wedding, a great view.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

So shout out to Marchos de Guadales for doing such an amazing, beautiful project and bringing back something special when it comes to the wine and olive oil industry and hotels as well to our area.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

Yeah, in our our area. Um, now Spain, the wine industry is between two to three percent of the GDP, so it is worth billions of dollars a year. And the thing I find as a foreigner here, drinking a glass of wine at lunchtime is not a big deal. Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

It's just not frowned, it's just normal, really. Totally, and it's very normal to order wine by the glass, very much so. It's not like you have to have a bottle, it's very normal to have a glass of wine in a business lunch, or you know, it's it's not frowned upon, the same thing as having a cana or a beer. Uh, the other thing as well that I think is important, I didn't realize, but I guess Spain is in the top three of wine producers in the world. Well, you have Italy, France, Spain.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

I mean, you have other countries that produce South Africa, but not at the level or volume as well that Spain does.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

And I had read that I think it's the like one of the from a terrain standpoint, is one of the largest uh size of vineyard terrains uh in the actual country. So, oh, here it is. Spain has the largest vineyard surface area in the world.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Oh, I can see that.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Which is surprising. I don't know, for some reason. You know, in my head, I don't think this is like such a big country. It is very big, Laura.

unknown 18:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Well, when you compare it to like, you know, the UK or yeah, it's uh so I think a couple of things as well that we wanted to mention. So some of the specific regions. Yes. So you have Rioja, which is tends to be more like the tempranillo, it's very elegant and has a lot of aging potential. So Rioja, you know, you can have like the older uh you could say vines. Exactly. Okay, and that's more in the north. Uh yes, so more like the Rioja is like a whole area. Right. And you can visit the area of Rioja, and then Catalonia has a lot of the cava and the traditional method for sparkling. That's where we're hopefully this year we're able to visit uh. Then we have Galicia has the Alberino, which are the crisp wipes and like seafood perfect, like they're perfect for you know, like all your fish, etc. And not listed as one of the top regions, but one of our favorite white wines or sort of a between a white wine and a cava is the Chacolio, the Chacolina. Which is this is like one of our 2025 highlights, is finding the Chacolio de Chacolina.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

It's a very fresh white wine that has a tiny bit of sparkle to it, but it's such a lovely thing to have in the summer. It's just super light, and they pour it in because we had it in Bilbao, but they pour it from you know a height like this, so it just aerates it. It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

So now when I walk into a supermarket, because they don't sell it everywhere here, and I see the Chacoli, I immediately get it for Nalini because I think because you know, they don't sell it everywhere. No, they do. And if you go into a restaurant or a bar and ask for Chacoli, like they kind of look at you weird if you're not in the world.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

We've done it one time multiple times. We've done it multiple times just to get a reaction because we know they're not going to have it. And they just steal Chacoli. They just even look at you. In the north, but not here. Yeah. They don't have it.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

So hopefully this uh entices you to try some Spanish wine if you haven't tried it. And what we'll do is we will link on the episode and on our social so you can check out Masos de Guadalajara and you can check out some of the wines that we mentioned.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

Yes, they're also not sponsoring us, by the way. This is just our experience. This is that we have no partnership with them. This has solely been our experience and us sharing it.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

I don't think we could sit here and talk about a wine that we thought was crappy. Like if we didn't like it. So there's a conflict of interest. We can't be sponsored by a wine that we don't like and they're not sponsoring us. But we just wanted to recognize when there is great work being done and it's you know local produce and it's sustainable and all these things, you know. We wanted to make sure that we highlight that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

All right, slice of life.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

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SPEAKER_02 21:46

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SPEAKER_01 22:01

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SPEAKER_02 22:11

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Slice Of Life: Trinidad Carnival Prep

SPEAKER_01 22:31

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SPEAKER_02 22:47

Okay, here we go. We're gonna do this. Slice of life. Whoa, I'm already hot. Okay, we are doing it. What happened? Did you try it? Did you try it? No, but I know it's spicy. Right. So we've been talking about wine, Spanish wine, and now we're gonna talk about trini wine, which is not actual whining. Yes, it is a way of dancing, let's say. I actually describe whining. Oh my goodness. I think if you look up the definition of it, it says to move one's hips from side to side in a gyrating motion. Something something to that effect. But um we are headed to Trinidad for Carnival. And this is the first time I, not the first time I've been to Trinidad, but the first time that I'm going to Carnival.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

So how are you feeling about it?

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Super excited. It's been a bucket list item for me for a while. I've always thought, oh, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it. And then I don't know, that just this past year I thought, let's do it. So we booked our tickets, we have our costumes. We're just gonna do a little, I mean, sort of a surface um, you know, cattle. Yeah, today. But we are going to do a much deeper dive into it. Now, for anybody that doesn't know, carnival in Trinidad is vastly different than Carnival in Rio, you know, or Carnival in Cadith or Carnival in New Orleans, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Or Carnival anywhere else. I think the Trinity Carnival is Well, it's the first in the Caribbean.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

And please don't come for me if there is another Caribbean island that they think they started it.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

Go for her. We love a debate. We love a debate. Let's debate.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

We can debate. And also when we go to Trinidad, we will learn. So we will bring back all the information, etc. So this past week I said to somebody, um, oh yeah, we're getting ready for carnival, and you know, Laura and I are going, so that's why I'm being really diligent about exercise and you know what I'm eating, etc. And she said, Oh, so what's your um like uh fancy dress? So here when you say carnival, it means fancy dress, which how would you explain fancy dress?

SPEAKER_01 25:05

So basically, here carnival is like you dress up like let's say Alice in Wonderland, or you dress up like a dog or a cat, or you dress up, most men dress up like women from the night for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 25:18

You know, so there's a very different meaning to it when you say carnival. Carnival in Trinidad is costumes, it is pageant pageantry, it is skin bearing. A lot, yes, a lot is very much so, and it has roots in colonialism. That's another deep dive. So we're not gonna.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

And there is a connection between Trinidad and Spain, and then Trinidad, well, actually, Trinidad, where we're going, is called Port of Spain.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Right. So you've had the Spanish influence, you've had the French, you've it was a British colony. And over the last, I don't know, since the 50s or so, carnival has become something that is international, that people from all over the world come to this little island off the coast of Venezuela for a party of a lifetime.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

So I'm tagging along because this was really Nalise's kind of like bucket list item, and I thought, this sounds really cool. Right.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

So we're in carnival prep.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Yay! This can't wait. Like honestly, it is something that I think is gonna be an experience of a lifetime. So I can't wait to share with our audience what this is going to be like.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

I'm yeah, we're beyond.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

I mean, we're all along on socials because we're counting down the days. We're literally in a countdown right now.

Mango Chow Taste Test

SPEAKER_02 26:40

So Trinity Car level as we're filming this. Now, we're talking uh a little bit about food, a little snack that you would have that's tip typical in other Caribbeans as well, but this is a trendy thing. It's called mango chow. I've never seen this. Okay, so this would be let's say that this is almost like a version of a tapa. Okay. Where you would eat it when you are having some drinks.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Oh right. You know, or like a beach day. Or yeah. Am I gonna be able to talk after eating this?

SPEAKER_02 27:12

Listen, I'm sweating. It's hot. Holy cow. And by the way, she asked for more peace. I took one peace.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

Oh my god. What kind of trillies are these? Probably scratch on it. Wow. Well, that'll wake you up.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

Not for the faint of heart.

SPEAKER_02 27:49

Right. So my tongue is on fire. This is something, yes, you would have as you're not gonna eat a whole bowl of it by yourself.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

You can make it with Unless you want to end up heavily damaged.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

You can eat it or have it when you are socializing, maybe playing cards, maybe hanging out. It's just a little, it's like a pickle. Um, but it's like a very spicy pickle. Very spicy pickle. You can have it with pineapple, mango, cucumber. Yeah, there's like a lot of garlic. The recipe, we can put the recipe up, but it's pretty simple. It's an acid salt, so acid would be lime, salt, the pepper, some garlic, and uh the trini version of um well, it's cilantro, but it's called coolantro. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Or shadow benny. If we put this recipe up, people may come for us. Like, you know, this is not very public friendly. It is so smished. No, it's like, ooh, yeah. We do want to do a shout-out to Hearts.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

Hearts Carnival, that's the bandival. That's the band that we're in, and we're playing in the costume Wild Bloom. So it is wild. Feel free to Google that and yes, um, right.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

We will be doing a whole deep dive on Soka S-O-C-A. Or Soka, not Sokka. So, a long O, a long O, Soka. So, Soka. There you go. So, so can't wait for this.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Uh, watch for Laura in TNT.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

Yeah, it's gonna be like Trinidad gone wild. Laura for the first time, getting to dance for eight days straight. We do love dancing, so I think I'm just very excited.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

So we're beyond excited. So, yeah, that was a little that's literally a little taster for you.

Spanish Phrase Of The Day

SPEAKER_01 29:46

It's hard to come back from that. Like my mouth is literally on fire right now. It is so spicy. Sweating, okay. Okay, all right. So, sentence of the day. Sentence of the day. All right, so this one, since we did wine and whining, yes, is al pan, pan, yal vino, vino. Bread, bread, wine, wine. It's uh it's life. Alpan, pan, yalbino, vino. What do you think that means? Uh, let's go. It means call things as what they are. Oh, okay. I would not think that. Pan pan yal vino vino. Like, you know, like hey. Uh so if you see someone that is kind of beating around the bush or not being direct, right? Or you want to really make a statement and it's like this is, you know, like it is what it is. Pan pan yal vino vino.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Okay, all right. Well, cheers to us and good luck to both of us for Carnival 2026.

Closing And Community Shout-Out

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Can someone get us a glass of milk now, please? Okay, awesome. So thank you so much for being along in this ride with this episode. Next time, uh, we'll be sharing lots of fun stuff from Carnival, etc. So looking forward to it. And please, as mentioned, make sure that you follow, subscribe, send us questions, connect with us. We absolutely love to hear from this incredible community. Yeah, bye for now. Bye for now.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

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