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In fino veritas
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"He says now he is glad he waited a while before deciding to concentrate on a fino-like table wine that is not as potent as sherry: so a dry wine from sherry vineyards that has a similar yeasty flavour as fino but is only about 12% alcohol rather than being increased to 15% by added alcohol as decreed for fino by the sherry authorities."
Collecting on a budget – Iberia
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"The rash of new Rioja producers, many nowadays producing geographically specific bottlings rather than blends, tend to release their wines earlier than the historic bodegas, for obvious financial reasons. But many of them are making very exciting wines that are well worth ageing."
Sherry, undiscovered treasure
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"As one of the great wines of the world, unique to Andalucía, sherry is capable of far more nuance than this and producing the vast array of dry styles is far more difficult than making most other sorts of wines."
Where Spanish wine might go
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"Meanwhile, the quality of Spanish wine and the average value of a litre of it has been climbing steadily, as doubtless anyone living in Spain has noticed. This has coincided with a dramatic upgrade in status and image for wine as a subject in Spain. Wine connoisseurship has become a perfectly respectable leisure pursuit for middle class Spaniards rather than a thoroughly agricultural, peasant activity. It was not always like this." (Jancisrobinson.com)
On the renaissance of Spain’s Garnacha grape
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"I would heartily concur — the country’s range of wine styles and interesting wine regions is multiplying rapidly." (Financial Times)
Priorat, worth the money?
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"Priorat, as it is known in the local Catalan (Priorato in Castilian), is named after the priory established here in the hills above Tarragona by Carthusians who arrived from Provence in the 12th century, possibly bringing Garnacha (Grenache) vines with them. Certainly Garnacha was the variety of choice in what were extensive vineyards until the phylloxera louse arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. Thousands of hectares of vineyards and a flourishing industry making mainly sacramental wine had become just 600 hectares in a rugged, depopulated landscape by 1979 when René Barbier, brought up in the wine business to the north east in Penedès, first arrived and saw the potential of the ancient vines growing here." (Jancisrobinson.com)