Paolo Galloni on why a great bottle of wine is never just a drink, and what three decades of tasting have taught him about time, memory, and the art of paying attention.

Because Spanish wine is, at its heart, a story of persistence, of growers who looked at land that was too hot, too dry, too windy, too high (and often all four) and said, we’ll plant vines anyway.

Today, it’s one of the most dynamic corners of the drinks world; technically ambitious, commercially booming, and culturally revealing.