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BAY RADIO – NEXT LIVE WINE TASTING!

The next live wine tasting on Bay Radio’s Sunday Brunch programme will be on Sunday 26th August, 12:00 hrs – 13:00 hrs. You can tune in and/or listen through the internet, www.bayradio.fm, click Listen Live!

We also invite your calles/e-mails during the programme for any suggestions/comments/questions you may have – why not join the party!

The idea is that I recommend a couple of wines to accompany the recipe(s) that Noelle has designed – the recipe details are read out along with the method and my role is to talk about the wines that will be a pefect match for the food, and why I believe this is so. I also give some details about the bodega, the wine itself, the area of production etc – and it’s all done with a sense of fun!

There are many listeners who follow the recipes and the wine recommendations and often people ask where the recommended wines can be bought.

Please join us on Sunday 26th August 12:00 – 13:00 hrs!

Pairing food with Spanish wine - it's a tough life!

CHEESE AND WINE!

Cheese and Wine – what a great combination; and what a super idea for a birthday celebration!

I’ve been asked to present a private wine/cheese pairing evening towards the end of July as part of a week-long birthday celebration.

We’ll be enjoying wines from DO Alicante and DO Yecla, including an excellent red dessert style wine (think Port and Stilton, with a Spanish Spin!) and classic cheeses from Spain, claro, and France.

Envious? Well, I’d be delighted to do the same, or similar, for you too! Please e-mail colin@colinharknessonwine.com or call (00 34) 629 388 159!

Yoga Holidays in Spain

Nicole and Gary of Yoga Breaks in Spain (www.yogabreaks.org.uk) have asked me to present a wine tasting at the Michelin rated Hotel Tossal D’Altea, where this week’s Yoga Group from the UK are staying.

On Sunday we’ll be tasting four wines from Bodegas Castaño and Bodegas Sierra Salinas along with a super meal in the hotel’s classy restaurant.

Looking forward to it!!

PODCAST WITH VINCE TRACY!

Thursday 12th July saw me at Vince Tracy’s broadcasting studio in La Nucia (www.vincetracy.com) where we enjoyed a recorded chat about wines, restaurants, rock music, football and other stuff of great interest to ourselves and hopefully to others too!

Vince has a huge following with something like 3,000 people regularly following his podcasts and his website, plus of course those who go to see his live performances, musical and comedy. He’s well known in the sports world, a Judo expert and accomplished footballer and rugby player as well as an ex-PE Teacher, like myself. He was born in the Wirral and is an avid Liverpool Football Supporter – we have a lot in common!

Something of a technophobe myself I was fascinated to learn more about the high-tech (to me at least) world of podcasting and I have to say that his flattering introduction to our podcast of yesterday (now available – www.vincetracy.com click on the right side of the home page, Podcasts, Colin Harkness) is hardly deserved when compared to the hundreds of other interviewees, many of them famous from the world of Pop and Rock, Sport, Entertainment and even the odd Politician too (well, they’re all odd, aren’t they?!).

A great experience for me – and we’ve agreed to add to this starter, as time goes on, so please keep a look out on Vince’s website, www.vincetracy.com !