On June 18, on our way from Bordeaux to Bilbao, we will be stopping for lunch, in Guetario, a little fishing village on the Basque coast of Spain. Right on the dock are about five restaurants that serve fresh seafood grilled on open wood fires. Anchovies, sardines, crab, and fish of every description. I kid you not - there is nothing I have had to compare with what is offered here. Nothing fancy. Just plain grilled seafood. And of course it is washed down with Txakoli, the bright, crisp, slightly effervescent, prickly white wine produced in the surrounding hills from a grape called Hondarrabi Zuri. Heaven! I cannot resist pigging-out. We'll probably repeat the performance on our way back to France two days later.
I tell you this not only to tout
Eizaguirre Txakoli which at $9.99 / 8.99
has long been a fixture on the MWS shelves, but to urge you to make a pilgrimage to Guetario and its restaurants,
if you are ever within striking distance of San Sebastian or Bilbao. I recommend the restaurant Astillero, although
you will not go wrong with any one of them.