The best wine to pair with Spanish tapas

How do you pair a meal that consists of a dozen little dishes? Here’s Libby’s guide to the best wine to serve alongside sensational Spanish produce

Pairing wine to food is all very well but what about tapas, when dinner is a dozen or more little dishes? A wine that suits whitebait is not necessarily going to work with patatas bravas.

I joined a friend for a tapas lunch last week at El Pirata of Mayfair, which purports to have one of the largest selections of Spanish wine in London at over 140 bottles. In a sea of slick modern restaurants, El Pirata is deliciously nostalgic.

Painted in black and white, with a long black bar, black waxy tablecloths and framed posters of Picasso and Miro, it feels like Withnail (and I) opened a restaurant with Bl

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