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Chris Lynch

@clynch83.bsky.social

I like 🇪🇸, 🍷 & 🥘🍤🍝. I also dabble with the Spanish Wine Collective.

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Bosque de Matasnos: un vino, un paraje y una historia de sostenibilidad libre de etiqueta — Spanish Wine Collective José Luis Rodríguez Martínez visita Bosque de Matasnos, un proyecto emblemático de la sostenibilidad medioambiental en pleno corazón de la Ribera del Duero.

José Luis Rodríguez Martínez visita Bosque de Matasnos, un proyecto emblemático de la sostenibilidad medioambiental en pleno corazón de la Ribera del Duero.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/bosque-...

18.04.2025 07:26 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

My fellow traveller @billboll.bsky.social giving us good reason to walk to Santiago de Compostela…

11.04.2025 09:01 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Galicia Wine Taste: a wine pilgrim’s progress — Spanish Wine Collective Bill Bolloten makes a wine pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela for the first edition of Galicia Wine Taste

Bill Bolloten makes a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela for the first edition of Galicia Wine Taste.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/galicia...

11.04.2025 07:18 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Embutido overload in León — Spanish Wine Collective Chris Lynch gives us the lowdown on the bars and free tapa culture of León

A reflection on León…mainly about bar hopping!! #leon #spain #barriohumedo 🇪🇸🍷

08.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you’re planning to visit León in north-west Spain, then you’d do well to read this…

07.04.2025 19:32 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Embutido overload in León — Spanish Wine Collective Chris Lynch gives us the lowdown on the bars and free tapa culture of León

Chris Lynch @clynch83.bsky.social gives us the lowdown on the bars and free tapa culture of León.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/embutid...

07.04.2025 09:13 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Fun Fun: disfrutar el vino orgánico en Madrid "sin salir de casa” — Spanish Wine Collective José Luis Rodríguez Martínez visita Fun Fun, un elegante y acogedor bar en Madrid que ofrece vinos naturales de España y más allá.

Our first article in Spanish. Madrid correspondent José Luis Rodríguez Martínez continues his quest to find great places to drink wine in Madrid. His visits Fun Fun, a stylish and welcoming bar that offers natural wines from Spain and beyond.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/fun-fun

30.03.2025 07:28 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Fun Fun: disfrutar el vino orgánico en Madrid "sin salir de casa” — Spanish Wine Collective José Luis Rodríguez Martínez visita Fun Fun, un elegante y acogedor bar en Madrid que ofrece vinos naturales de España y más allá.

Nuestro primero artículo en español. José Luis Rodríguez Martínez continúa su búsqueda de excelentes lugares para beber vino en Madrid y visita Fun Fun, un elegante y acogedor bar en Madrid que ofrece vinos naturales de España y más allá.
www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/fun-fun

30.03.2025 07:29 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Simplesmente Vinho: Portugal’s showcase for smaller producers — Spanish Wine Collective Mary Bowles goes to Porto for Simplesmente Vinho and discovers some fantastic wines

We are delighted to publish a guest post by Mary Bowles. Mary went to Porto to attend Portugal’s leading independent wine fair, Simplesmente Vinho, where she discovered fantastic wines from Adega do Vadio, Quinta da Várzea da Pedra and Cortes de Cima.
www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/simples...

14.03.2025 09:46 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Natural Wine, No Drama — Spanish Wine Collective Alan Nance settles down with a wine and book pairing

@amicdelvi.bsky.social reviews Natural Wine, No Drama by Honey Spencer while sipping Els Bassots, an unsulfited Chenin Blanc made by Joan Ramón Escoda and Mª Carme Sanahuja.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/natural...

28.02.2025 09:35 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

My latest piece for the Spanish Wine Collective is now online (link below), this time pairing book with wine

28.02.2025 09:51 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Wine of the week — Spanish Wine Collective Chris Lynch drinks a tinto from the Valencia region and dreams of warmer days by the Mediterranean

My little contribution this month to @spanishwinecoll.bsky.social. My wine of the week whisked me to Valencia whilst sat at my dining table planning 2025 trips! A little sunshine as we crawl into spring. www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/casalab...

22.02.2025 10:29 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A little Mediterranean sunshine as we crawl towards spring! #wine #spain #spanishwine 🍷🍷🍷

22.02.2025 10:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Wine of the week — Spanish Wine Collective Chris Lynch drinks a tinto from the Valencia region and dreams of warmer days by the Mediterranean

Wine of the week. Chris Lynch goes to one of our favourite producers Rafael Cambra, and opens his Casalabor, a tinto made with the local variety Arcos. An elegant wine with flavours of red fruits and herbs, that evokes warmer days by the Mediterranean.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/casalab...

21.02.2025 10:34 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Wine days in Barcelona — Spanish Wine Collective Bill Bolloten chooses some favourite wines from three days of tasting in Barcelona

Today we publish @billboll.bsky.social's report on three days of wine tasting at Barcelona Wine Week, Vinos "Off the Record" and Liquid Vins.
www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/wineday...

14.02.2025 10:10 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Wine of the week — Spanish Wine Collective Adrian McManus explores the fascinating history of a once popular sweet wine from Galicia

@adrianmcmanus.bsky.social visits D.O. Ribeiro, one of the oldest wine regions in Europe for our wine of the week. Tostado is a unique sweet wine from Adegas Celme, which has been rescued from oblivion and now formally recognised by the appellation.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/celme-t...

07.02.2025 12:31 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

1!

04.02.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The essential guide to #wine #drinking in #madrid.

#spain #🍷 #🇪🇸

04.02.2025 06:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Try their El Predilecto!

03.02.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Five historic taverns in Madrid where you can experience Spain’s wine culture  — Spanish Wine Collective José Luis Rodríguez Martínez takes us on a tour of Madrid taverns with a flavour of the past

José Luis Rodríguez Martínez takes us on a tour of five Madrid taverns that offer an opportunity to relive the atmosphere of the past. These authentic places combine a rich and exciting history with a contemporary take on great Spanish wine.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/five-hi...

31.01.2025 10:04 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

That’ll put hairs on yer chest!

29.01.2025 06:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had a great time earlier this month visiting one of the oldest and most traditional bodegas in Jerez de la Frontera. Perhaps less well-known than some of the 'big names', yet the wines and the overall experience was memorable.

24.01.2025 09:49 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A visit to Bodegas Díez-Mérito — Spanish Wine Collective Bill Bolloten begins the new year fortified by a visit to one of Jerez’s historic sherry bodegas

Our man in Andalusia, @billboll.bsky.social, decides that another visit to a sherry bodega was merited. Read his report and tasting notes on Bodegas Díez-Mérito in Jerez de la Frontera.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/bodegas...

24.01.2025 09:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Sound fab! And the wine??

19.01.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Phew!! 😂

18.01.2025 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Lynch household staple…bread, milk, Albahra, as the list goes. A lot of wine for the £€$!! @spanishwinecoll.bsky.social🍷 #wine #spain #envinate #🇪🇸

18.01.2025 12:28 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Wine of the week — Spanish Wine Collective Chris Lynch wins over a friend with a hip wine from renowned producers Envínate

Wine of the week is the Albahra 2023 by Envínate. It’s a wine that almost everyone seems to like. And as @clynch83.bsky.social writes, a success with a guest who describes it as a ‘hip wine’.

www.spanishwinecollective.com/blog/albahra...

17.01.2025 13:16 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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