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He offers us a deeply personal collection of 12 wines that each mark a distinct memory or person in his life, accompanied by the songs that resonate with those moments. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mestres-1312-cava-reserva-brut","title":"1312 Cava Reserva Brut","description":"\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eMestres in Catalan means masters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eWhen I opened The Paella Club six years ago, I started working with this winery. If you take a look at the bottle, it says 1312. That number is actually when the winery started. 700 years ago, man. Think about that. I chose this wine because I love that wine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eThey have some amazing wine that you can actually find in the United States, although not in a lot of places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mestres","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41871680569446,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6436\/2086\/files\/CavaMestres1312CavaReservaBrut-13web.jpg?v=1722193503"},{"product_id":"sal-de-terra-albarino","title":"Albariño","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is one my favorite wine regions in Spain. It’s in the north west and a huge producer of white wines. 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And we had the Cakebread Chardonnay and I loved it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eI was working in an Italian restaurant that had an amazing white selection and got to try wines from all over the world. But my favorite is the Cakebread. Then again, just because of that girl and that dinner, you know?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eSo I chose Cakebread because of the memories that I have out of that bottle. 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And I liked it very much.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eSo I chose to serve it when I first opened The Paella Club.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bodega Contador","offers":[{"title":"2014","offer_id":42160630169702,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6436\/2086\/files\/BenjaminRomeoPredicadorTinto-2web.jpg?v=1722566137"},{"product_id":"perelada-brut-reserva-cava","title":"Brut Reserva Cava","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eOkay. Number seven. Perelada. That is the Cava that we serve as an opening drink at The Paella Club.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eWhether it's one, five or eight o’clock, that is the one that we serve all the time. And that one is delicious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eIt comes from El Penedes, which is like 30 miles south of Barcelona.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Perelada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41871680700518,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6436\/2086\/files\/PereladaBrutReservaCava-18web.jpg?v=1722200752"},{"product_id":"mas-candi-desig","title":"Desig","description":"\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eWe've been working with this winery since 2018, probably.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eSo when you come to The Paella Club, we start with Peralada. 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My mom lives in that area and we discovered this wine around 2009.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eI went with my mom, my family, my niece and nephew, and my brother. We went to a restaurant and we had a great big beautiful paella. And we had the El Seque. From then on I fell in love with that one. Monastrell, a hundred percent. It's kind of on the fruity side. 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