Here’s the most important travel tip anyone will ever give you about Spain. You heard it here first, folks. Order the tinto de verano (“red wine of summer”). Order it everywhere. Does everyone already know this? I had never heard of it before we landed in Madrid. We found that sangria wasn’t nearly as popular in Spain as we thought it would be, but EVERY restaurant can make you a tinto de verano, because it’s just red wine mixed with some sort of soda, usually a lemon-flavored one. It’s like the dive bar version of sangria, and everyone makes it a little bit differently.

Here’s the most important travel tip anyone will ever give you about Spain. You heard it here first, folks. Order the tinto de verano (“red wine of summer”). Order it everywhere. Does everyone already know this? I had never heard of it before we landed in Madrid. We found that sangria wasn’t nearly as popular in Spain as we thought it would be, but EVERY restaurant can make you a tinto de verano, because it’s just red wine mixed with some sort of soda, usually a lemon-flavored one. It’s like the dive bar version of sangria, and everyone makes it a little bit differently.

Photo taken at: La Cruzada, Taberna madrileña

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