Tasting Landscapes ∙ October 2025
The Art of Southern Spanish Wines
Introduction to Wine Tasting and the Wines of La Axarquía
WHAT, WHEN and WHERE
🍷 5 different wines
📅 Saturday, October 11, 2025
🕒 6:00 pm
📍 el Bote de Luz. Calle Convento, 21, Canillas de Aceituno (Málaga). How to get there
🪑 €50
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
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1. 🏠 In person. Come to el Bote de Luz and book in advance.
2. 📲 Bizum. Send us a WhatsApp message with the names of the attendees, and once we confirm the spots, send a Bizum to +34645993636.
3. 🌐 Online. Send us a WhatsApp message with the names and, after confirming availability, we'll send you a link to pay on the website.
Wine is more than the elixir swirling in the glass, the result of fermenting grape juice. It’s a distilled expression of a place—of the earth, the history, and human hands.
At el Bote de Luz, we invite you to journey beyond flavor and enter into a dialogue with La Axarquía, one of Andalusia’s most singular wine regions.
Perched between the Mediterranean Sea and the rugged Sierras, the Axarquía is a land of extremes: vertiginous vineyards clinging to slate slopes, villages suspended like white brushstrokes against the mountains, and a climate shaped by the breath of the sea. Every bottle here carries the imprint of this geography — the sun-scorched terraces, the scarcity of water, the resilience of ancient vines.
But landscapes are not only geological. They are also cultural. In our tasting, each sip will open a window to the people and traditions that shaped these hills: the slow rhythm of harvests done by hand, the echoes of Moorish terracing techniques, the songs that once accompanied mule drivers crossing the ridges. To taste these wines is to taste memory, craft, and belonging.
In Tasting Landscapes, you’ll sample five wines from the two grape varieties native to La Axarquía: Moscatel and Romé. You’ll learn to uncover wine’s secrets—how to taste it, what to feel in its texture, how to appreciate its shades of color, brightness, and aroma—and you’ll grasp its close relationship with the land. After the tasting, you’ll see both wine and landscape with fresh eyes.
The tasting will be led by Mónica Martín, a Madrid-born oenologist based in La Axarquía and a deep connoisseur of the region’s wines and vineyards.
We look forward to welcoming you for an afternoon of wine, art, and culture.
✨ Tasting Landscapes is part of el Bote de Luz’s philosophy of offering intimate artistic and cultural experiences, where multiple disciplines—especially photography, history, music, and the moving image—often intertwine in an ongoing dialogue between tradition and the avant-garde.