SWE Ep. 182 - Weird Grapes: Forastera

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SWE Ep. 182 - Weird Grapes: Forastera

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Time for another episode of 'what the hell grape is that?!' Roque spent New Year in the Canary Islands, lucky bugger, but he still did his job and brought us back a bottle of something weird from Tenerife using a very rare grape from another island entirely: Forastera!

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SWE Ep. 182 - Weird Grapes: Forastera

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