Malagas Traditional Wines And Wine Bars

Malaga is very original place to visit, for so many reasons the culture, history, weather, nature and malaga wine. Let’s visit the best bodega bars in town! Casa de Guardia is not just a bar, it’s also a bodega that produces it’s own wine, such as the Chavea and the Isabel Segunda. The bar has maintained the same decor and atmosphere since opening, with all Russian, old barrels and Cuban water taps; they date from before WW. Manolo, tell me, what is the malaga wine? Malaga wine normally is malaga sweet, in this house we have variations of malaga sweet.

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But in the malaga sweet we have three main ones, they are .semi dry, semi dry, it’s mixed, it’s a bit sweet, not very, very dry and made with different grapes, Moscatel and Pedro Ximen grapes. But the sweeter version is from the Moscatal. Normally, the dry malaga, we make it with the Pedro Ximen grapes, not from the Moscatel; from the moscatel, always the sweet one. How many varieties of the malaga wine are there? Well, in this house we have seven different ones in barrels, and four or five more in bottles, specialties from Malaga. And do you also have combinations? -Yes, it’s a very typical way. We mix the malaga sweet and dry like, we have nine or ten different sweet and three semi dry, so we can make or different combinations. Don’t be surprised when the bill is written on the bar in front of you! You can enjoy local wine and traditional food in malagueño style at charming bodega bars like this one, where celebrities sign their names on barrels.

So Luis, tell us a little bit about the history of this wonderful place ‘El Pimpi’. Well, this wonderful place at the beginning was the stable of the Palace of Buena Vista. The Palace of Buena Vista now actually is the Picasso Museum. But then, after, the stable was a convent in the middle of the th century. And a bit after it was closed for a while, and a bit after it was the first dancing salon in Malaga, in the Costa del Sol. So a really important place, as it has always been. And let me say that after, it was closed for a while, but from the seventies it was opened as El Pimpi, what it is know. Everybody in Malaga knows El Pimpi and everybody in Malaga has been in El Pimpi. A lot of celebrities came here as well, Antonio Banderas used to come like, five or six times a year. People as i don’t know, John Malkovich, Tony Blair has been here, Maná, the Mexican group What is the most popular wine that you serve here in El Pimpi? Well, the most popular, and perhaps the most typical as well, from here from Malaga, is Moscatel wine. We sell Moscatel Iberia, it’s wine from Malaga, from the region of Antequera, the north of Malaga. The winery that provides it is Malaga Virgen, and we have worked with Malaga Virgen for a long time they are like our brothers, it’s a nice relation we have with them. We like our tourists to taste this Moscatel Iberia and we like to invite them at the end of their meal for a little Moscatel wine for them to try, to taste the most popular wine here, the typical one.

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