Tapas for 2 with Rioja

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Staying in for a Date Night? Cosy, candle-lit dinner for two? If one thing’s destined to dampen any ardour, it’s slaving over a hot stove all night with a pile of washing up to finish the meal.

That’s where Basco comes to the rescue!

This is a romantic tapas for two with either a bottle of fruity Rioja or a sparkly Cava. This comes in a stylish red presentation box with everything you need to put away the pinny and have a romantic meal, minimum of fuss, so you can focus on that special someone. Follow our simple instruction to prepare wonderful tapas meal and pudding and enjoy our fool proof way to make your  evening something memorable. Each Couple’s Box contains the following:

•A can of La Fragua piquillo peppers are a variety of chili pepper that has a sweet taste with no heat. The fruits are about 7cm long, well suited for growing in pots. They are traditionally grown in Northern Spain and its name is derived from the Spanish for little beak.

Typically, piquillo peppers are hand picked during two harvests between September and December. They are roasted over embers, which gives them a distinct sweet, spicy flavour. They are then peeled and de-seeded by hand, before being packed into jars or tins for sale.

Piquillo Peppers are often stuffed with meat, seafood, or cheese, and served as tapas.

• Serrano Ham – Bring up to room temperature an hour before and arrange decorously on a plate. This sweet, soft ham has been cured for 12 months and comes from free-range pork.

• Venison and Pedro Ximenez pate – this pate is flavoured with sweet Spanish sherry to make a rich and delicious accompaniment with toasted bread.

• Chorizo sausage with red wine and honey – check out our simple, fool-proof recipe here  to make gorgeously tasty and flavourful tapa.

• Arroyabe bonito tuna – delicious just forked into a salad of fresh tomatoes, red onion and pomegranate seeds.

• La Chinata Manzanilla Olives, crunchy green olives flavoured with garlic and rosemary.

• 1880 Turron de Jinona – crumbled over ice cream.

• Murillo Viteri Rioja Crianza Hand-picked from 40-year-old vines and grown on a calcareous soil, this wine spends 14 months in oak before 6 months in the bottle. This produces a lovely, soft, berry fruit flavour with rounded vanilla and a final, silky finish.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS HAMPER MUST BE STORED IN A DRY AND COOL PLACE 0-8 DEGREES.  OTHERWISE THE PADRON AND CHARCUTERIE NEEDS REFRIGERATING IF YOU ARE NOT USING IT STRAIGHTAWAY.