Its time again to tell you on the wines of my dear Spain, As said, this goes back from my beginnings ,and I still go for them everywhere, I coming back at you with my wines news of Spain XXII . Of course post No 22 for the non Romans, Hope you enjoy the post as I.
This Tuesday, March 12,2024 has been approved by the Council of Ministers of Spain, at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, a regulatory change that marks a new chapter in the history of labeling and classification of liquor wines in Spain ,Until the date, the mention “Dry” was reserved for those liquor wines with DOP that did not exceed 45 grams of sugar per liter. At the same time, “Pale Dry” followed identical regulations in terms of sugary content. However, the panorama changes with the elimination of the “Dry” denomination and the upward revision of the sugar limit for the wines labeled as “Pale Dry”, which can now contain up to 50 grams of sugar per liter. Read All About It or rather look careful at the label.
The modification of the Royal Decree that regulates the wine sector intervention in Spain, published this Tuesday, March 12,2024 represents a turning point in how the country manages one of its most emblematic and relevant agricultural sectors: the winemakers. This normative change, promoted within the framework of the Strategic Plan of the Common Agricultural Policy (PAC), not only underlines the importance of adapting to new market realities and environmental demands but also reflects a firm commitment to processes optimization and the efficiency in the allocation of financial resources. The green harvest, agricultural practice that consists of the selective elimination of grape clusters before its maturation, in order to balance production and improve the quality of the remaining grapes, it is located In the center of this reform. Here comes the pacsmen and agriculture suffering again !
The Museo Vivanco museum moves one of its rooms to Malaga with the exhibition “Vino. Arte y Símbolo” or wine. art and symbol, The exhibition, which can be visited at the Unicaja Cultural Center of Malaga up to April 21, 2024, offers a tour of the different representations of wine in art and culture from ancient times to the present day. The idea of the itinerant museum is part of the activities that the Bodega Vivanco winery is carrying out on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, and that will be replicated in other Spanish and European cities. The exhibition “wine. Art and symbol” gathers more than 80 pieces , between oils, sculptures, engravings, tapestries and goldsmith objects, which illustrate the importance of wine in history, mythology and religion. Among the exhibited works are pieces of artists such as Picasso, Juan Gris, Tàpies, Chagall, Sorolla, Barceló, Lichtenstein, Braque, Genoese, Warhol, Ribera, Mantegna, Ángelo Viva, Clodion, Ferdinand Preiss, Antonio Estruch or Lucas Valdés. Webpage : https://www.fundacionunicaja.com/event/visitas-guiadas-a-la-exposicion-vino-arte-y-simbolo/
La Granja de Remelluri is a magical enclave with one of the oldest stories in La Rioja Alavesa. During the 14-15C it housed a farm of Jeronym monks dependent on the Sanctuary of Toloño. At present, it is the renowned elaborator Telmo Rodríguez who is in charge of the project that belongs to his family since the late sixties. In 2010, the first harvest of Lindes de Remelluri, which today has managed to become a reference that reflects the diversity of a unique and privileged place. The Lindes de Remelluri Viñedos de La Bastida vineyards is mainly Tempranillo with a small contribution from Garnacha and Graciano. Performs a one year breeding in oak barrels that structures it without subtracting an apex of personality and character. Floral notes, red fruits and great elegance wrap a faithful wine reflection of its origin. Webpage: http://www.remelluri.com/
A name with great meaning and history is chosen for this wine since via Edetana was the old Roman road that united Tortosa with Zaragoza. In this way, the bodega Edetària winery demonstrates its belonging to the Mediterranean culture where the wine has been an essential element. From the epicenter of the Terra Alta, Gandesa, they have been developing wines with their atmosphere and origin for two decades. Of course, the fetish variety of the area, the garnacha, has a great prominence and has given rise to a white and red with the same name. But this limited edition of 5,000 bottles that has just seen the light is a cariñena. Via Edetana Carinyena 2016 highlights black and blue fruits, with a beautiful floral background. It has a body and complexity well combined with the elegance and identity of the house. Webpage : https://edetaria.com/en/edetaria/
With a tradition in viticulture that dates from 1873, the family Recuero has vine and winery in Villanueva de Alcardete, Toledo province, Thru its hands passes grapes that have been off the map such as moravia, tinta velasco or the one chosen for this wine, pardilla. Calambur Pardilla ,a different white, with aromas of quince and even almond, in which volume and density make it a perfect companion for dishes of all kinds, making it a versatile and very gastronomic option. Webpage: http://www.bodegasrecuero.com/
The Marqués de Murrieta in Capellanía, a white of Viura grape from old layers of the zone of the same name of the highest area of the finca Ygay farm. With a long aging of 22 months in oak Allier barrels it gets a unique complex and elegant aroma, white fruit, notes to country herbs, on spicy bottom of pastries and roasted. Fatty palate, intense flavor, good acidity and excellent evolution. Webpage : https://marquesdemurrieta.com/pages/capellania-reserva
The Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres leads a lifetime democratizing wines of excellent quality so that everyone has the freedom to enjoy them in their own way. Today, the firm founded in 1970 continues to celebrate the singularity of each vintage, of each moment and of each person with the launch of its Bodega brand, the result of the evolution of a teaching of strong national and international recognition that adapts to the new times without abandoning their essence: strengthening their values with an aspirational discourse for all their audiences in their commitment to recover that perception of innovation ,and have created a cellar brand that allows them to champion a relevant and timeless philosophy of life, to provide value and differentiation, protecting all Its product brands: Marqués de Cáceres, Excellens, Satinela, Gaudium … etc. Its range of Genuinos (genuines) wines reflects the core business of the winery: offer very good quality at accessible prices. Everyday wines with soft and easy flavors for day to day. The Gourmet range is specially and exclusively thought for restoration, with perfect singular wines to enjoy gastronomy. And the Signature family contains iconic superior quality wines. Expert and more refined flavors for special moments.Webpage : https://www.marquesdecaceres.com/en/
Toarrive at the Bodegas Franco–Españolas you can arrive in just ten minutes on foot from Calle Laurel and the center of Logroño, crossing the Puente de Hierro or iron bridge over the Ebro river. They are not the only winery, but the only historical and centenary that It remains within the town center. They gathered their grapes as the mayority of Tempranillos coming from La Rioja Alta and the Alavesa, and the Garnachas comes from the Rioja Oriental,Bodegas Franco–Españolas was already a fairly large winery for the Rioja of the time when it was founded in 1890 and it was a daring to make a semi -white “Sauterne style” in the ground of red. It is now called Diamante and is one of their greatest wine. The first invoice bill that we have found data from the 1892 vintage, when it was made in wooden tones and, after cutting the fermentation, passed to parenting in barrels. Today is a wine that can be found in all lines and has a fantastic quality for the price at which it comes out, because want to have a popular product to which the largest possible public has access. With the Reserva they have recently changed the format and that will be called the Diamante de Graciela, which seeks to recover that “Sauterne style” with which the founder of the winery, Frederick Anglade Saure began. They have also released a version called Talla de Diamante , much more limited in volume and in which various grape varieties enter, highlighting the white Tempranillo early in the sensory part. They have in the cellar about 15,000 to 20,000 bottles . The oldest date from 1898, although the oldest with label are from the 1950s, the wines that are made today will not endure so much time in the bottle as those made in the past, when there was a lot of French influence. In France it is very common to sell you that you have to keep for a while, but that in Spain is no longer so normal. Now it is sought to elaborate that the optimal moment of consumption is closer. A wonderful winery and great wines always ! Webpage : https://www.francoespanolas.com/
There are few, but they represent the advance of a process of historical recovery of the most unique typologies of the denomination of origin Rueda thus, the gold were consumed and appreciated in the court of the Catholic Monarchs, prestige that remained in the Golden Age, time in which they were considered a real luxury. During a long period of time they were successful and defendant wines until, at the end of the last century, young whites of Verdejo were imposed, driven by their great acceptance among consumers, and particularly thanks to the incorporation of the Sauvignon Blanc variety, initiated by Marqués de Riscal in 1974, who contributed a significant plus of fruit aromas. In his own way, Bodega Rodríguez Sanzo also is elaborated, with a veil wine, but without meeting the requirements of breeding and heading time (added wine alcohol). With wine alcohol until reaching a minimum of 14 degrees. Subsequently, it goes to oak barrels for biological raising under flower veil for at least three years. For its part, in the gold, the base wine is headed with wine alcohol until reaching a minimum of 15 degrees. Subsequently, you must undergo a breeding process through Damajuanas exposed to the weather, where it remains for at least a year, thanks to which it acquires its characteristic color, to end an oxidative parenting for a minimum of two years
Bodega De Alberto Dorado is prepared under an exclusive method of oxidative parenting in Damajuanas exposed to the Sun for two months, with subsequent aging for a year by the American oak flooring method with more than 70 years. Intense harsh aroma, with notes of roasted nuts, sweet spices, dry flowers, and souvenirs of raisins. Intense and expressive, it has an incisive touch of volatile acidity, and a slight sensation of sweetness in its long and persistent final. An attractively unique option. Bodega De Alberto Pàlido is the only pale wheel, so his elaboration has laid a chair. They begin by selecting plots of two vineyards planted in 1929 and 1936. After fermentation, and a raising a raising on the fine lines, the wine is headed with alcohol until 15 degrees to perform biological breeding in oak barrels, where a minimum remains three years old. Intense and delicate aroma of nuts with memories of bakery and mazapan, spicy and iodized notes. Lightly sharp, but soft and delicate, it has a long saline post -site and a dried and dry mouth.Webpage : https://www.dealberto.com/es/
The Bodega Rodríguez Sanzo winery, with vineyards in Toro, Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Prirat and Rueda, elaborates this target with low veil breeding, although it is not a pale. Part of centenary vineyards cultivated more than 800 meters high. The Fermenta must in new French oak barrels and is raised in used Jerez boots, with part of the wine subjected to biological upbringing for a minimum of 10 months. Incisive aroma of nuts, white flowers, spicy memories and frosty fruit. In the mouth it is fatty and fresh, very dry, with long and persistent saline retroglling. Webpage : https://rodriguezysanzo.com/
Let me finish with something sentimental as my last family vacation with all alive was to come to this region and drank its wines still do, At the eastern end of Castilla-La Mancha, this region looks out of Levante, Almansa is Manchega, yes, but it lets herself be loved by the Mediterranean, and that duality is reflected in its history, its landscape, its character and, of course, in its wines, An impetuous and seductive variety, the tintorera garnacha, which is expressed in these lands as anywhere else in the world with the imposing silhouette of the castle of Almansa symbol and witness of its turbulent and exciting history. It was built around the 11C and rebuilt during the reconquest by Don Juan Manuel, author of Count Lucanor. The Logo of the D.O.P. Almansa is the castle with its history inside, with that mozárabe influence and those Mediterranean nuances, The DOP covers 9800 hectares and 11 wineries that make up the D.O.P. Almansa in very different elaborations: from young reds to unexpected wines, but the main grape is the Garnacha Tintorera,with 70% of the production, Their main office is based in the historic hermitage of San Blas at the feet of the castle, Another fundamental grape is the Monastrell, which is the second most cultivated and in Almansa is expressed in a totally different way from Alicante or Murcia due to the altitude and continental climate, The D.O.P. Almansa is part of the Monastrell Spain Association along with the denominations of origin Alicante, Bullas, Jumilla and Yecla,,, There is the White Almansa, the Verdejo grape, The best to claim them is the Bodegas Cano, which launched two parcels of Verdejo and Sauvignon Blanc tremendously unique such as Finca Casa del Hondo and Finca Hoya Mañas. The roots of this family winery date back to 1860, Also, the historic vineyards of Bodegas Piqueras, some of them grow next to the magnetic presence of the Almansa Castle. Founded in 1915 by Luis Piqueras, At Finca Casalta, a fascinating place at 1,000 meters of altitude surrounded by centennial oak from a limestone land that revealed an unexpected secret:Dominio de Casalta with 22 hectares in Almansa with their Dominio de Casalta Sorrasca, a monovarietal of Petit Verdot, At the community of Tintoralba ,you have the roots of the Santa Quiteria Cooperativa de Higueruela, founded in 1957, and today has 225 members, sharing a poetic objective: “Search for the soul of La Garnacha Tintorera in its maximum expression.” Also, see Bodegas Atalaya, from Dominio Viñas Familia Gil, Hacienda El Espino and the Bodega Santa Cruz de Alpera,, There is a recent Ruta del Vino de Almansa or wine route. The local historian Miguel Juan Pereda said: “Drinking wine from the place where it was born is a privilege, it is to free the blood of Mother Earth.” Indeed ! Webpage DOP Almansa: https://denominacion-origen-almansa.com/en/home/
The Ruta del Vino de Almansa wine route: https://rutavinoalmansa.com/en/
There you go folks, another wonderful post on my dear Spanish wines, Hoping for a long lasting memories of my dear Spain and its wine news, Again,hope you enjoy the series of wines news of Spain as I.
And remember, happy travels, good health,and many cheers to all !!!
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