Bodegas Chozas Carrascal gets Vino de Pago status
Bodegas Chozas Carrascal has been cleared to enter Spain's emergent Vino de Pago system, ending a five-year wait.
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Bodegas Bretón for sale
Bodegas Bretón in Navarrete, Rioja is up for sale after a difficult few years’ trading.
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Spain export growth 'substantial'
Spain’s wine export business has shown substantial growth in the first half of 2012.
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Spain predicted smaller harvest, higher grape prices
As harvest gets underway in Spain, observers are predicting a reduction in quantity, while prices for bulk wine are already substantially higher than last year.
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Fires in Emporda kill four
Four people have been killed and 14,000ha of forest destroyed in two fires in the Pyrenean region of Emporda on the Spanish-French border.
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'Exotic and ancient' sherries from new web retailer
A new internet retailer with one of the most comprehensive sherry lists on the web has just opened.
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Faustino releases Rioja Chardonnay
Rioja bodega Faustino is the first large-scale producer to make a white Rioja using Chardonnay in the blend alongside Viura.
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Nueva Rumasa sold to 'vulture fund'
The financially-troubled Spanish food and drink group Nueva Rumasa has been sold for a reported €1.5bn.
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Marques de Olivara files for bankruptcy
Toro winery Marques de Olivara, part of the Nueva Rumasa group, has filed for bankruptcy.
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Grand Cru style vineyards in Spain
Pago - not the capital of an exotic south-Pacific island, but a new category of ‘grand cru’ single-vineyard estates in Spain. Many are called but few are chosen, as JOHN RADFORD explains
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Sherry: Domecq, Valdivia, Perez Marin sales
While sherry country is grubbing up surplus vineyards, there have been a number of sales and mergers in the marketplace over the last twelve months.
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Chardonnay and Sauvignon allowed in Rioja
Rioja winemakers can now use Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Verdejo in their white wines, the region’s wine body has decreed.
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Spanish Winemaking Top 20 Climbers
Spain seems to change more quickly than almost any other wine region in the world. Here, the world’s leading Spanish wine expert JOHN RADFORD introduces his choice of 20 bodegas who are doing things differently, have improved radically, or are just plain underrated.
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In Focus: Rioja
Despite being one of Spain’s most traditional wine areas, Rioja is by no means standing still. Spain expert JOHN RADFORD examines recent changes within the region, looks at the key players and newcomers, and recommends the best new releases and good-value wines.
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SPANISH WINES
The Spanish wine scene has been transformed in recent years, says world authority on the country’s wines, John Radford. As part of the process of updating his award-winning book The New Spain, he oversaw our largest ever tasting of Spanish wines. Here he reflects on the highlights, and on what’s changed
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The New Spanish Winemakers
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Beyond Rioja wine
When Rioja prices rocketed towards the end of the 1990s, buyers started to look elsewhere. JOHN RADFORD highlights the best affordable Spanish regions giving Rioja a run for its money
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A very Sherry Christmas
Many people buy their one bottle of sherry at Christmas each year, and it's usually bland, sweet and unmemorable. JOHN RADFORD explains that there is much more to the Andalucian favourite
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The pioneer spirit of Carlos Falco
The man responsible for driving the Vino de la Tierra classification is one of the Spanish wine scene's most colourful characters as JOHN RADFORD discovers
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Spain a red decade: Rioja tasting
The 75th anniversary of La Rioja's Consejo Regulador provided ample excuse for a tasting. JOHN RADFORD samples the 1999 and some of the region's older and greater vintages
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Spanish wine Armada: Rioja
Once the name Rioja was synonymous with Spanish wine. These days, says JOHN RADFORD, the region is having to innovate to maintain its lead
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An enthusiasm
Prominent Catalans are pressing for a blanket regional appellation, to reap the best of all zones, while the subregions continue to strengthen their reputations. John Radford reports
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Root revival
JOHN RADFORD looks at a region which has, on the brink of the 21st century, virtually reinvented itself within the last two decades
