The Sound-Super-Spanish-Fast Wine GuideTM!

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Essential Wine Vocab...

8 Very Basic Words You Canʼt Do Without

La Bodega - The winery or a wine cellar

El Viñedo - Vineyard
La Uva - Grape
El Vino Blanco - White wine
El Vino Tinto - Red Wine
El Rosado - Rosé
La Vendimia - The yearly grape harvest
El Corcho - Cork

Very Authentic Spanish Wine Phrases...

...To Make You Sound More Spanish Than Julio Iglesias

Me apetece un vinito - I really feel like a glass of wine.

¿Alguien ha visto el sacacorchos? - Has anyone seen the corkscrew?

¡Madre mía que bueno está! - Holy Cow this is tasty!

Este vino es horrible - This wine tastes awful.

Delicioso, tiene notas de frambuesa y vainilla - Delicious, I’m getting hints of

raspberry and vanilla.

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¡No seas tan pijo! Sabe a vino y ya está - Don’t be so pretentious! Just tastes like
wine to me!

¡No lo usaría ni para sangría! - I wouldn't even use this for sangría!

¡Como uses este vino para sangría te corto los guitos! ¿Tú sabes cuanto me ha
costado? - If you use this wine for Sangira I’ll castrate you! Do you have any idea
how much it cost me?

Spanish Wine Proverbs...

...To Help You Fit In With The Old Spanish Guys At The Bar

"A quien el vino no le va, Dios le quita el pan." - God takes their bread away from
those that don’t like wine.

"Andar derecho y mucho beber, no puede ser." - Drinking a lot and walking in a
straight line don’t match.

"Beber con medida alarga la vida." - Drinking with moderation makes you live
longer.

"Eres como el vino, con el paso de los años mejoras." - You’re like wine, you get
better as the years go by.

More Useful Resources:

Learn To Interpret The Spanish Wine Label, at Catavino.net:
http://www.catavino.net/blog/interpreting-the-spanish-wine-label/

Learn More Real Spanish With The Podcast Audio at Notesinspanish.com:

http://www.notesinspanish.com/

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