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Prizes at the XXI Galician Wine Tasting
The D.O. Ribeira Sacra presented 28 samples, all of them reds from 25 bodegas, at the Galician Wine Tasting that took place this week in Santiago de Compostela. The majority of the samples, 20,...
9 Ribeira Sacra wines have been awarded
The Association of Sommeliers Gallaecia held there final tasting for awarding the Distinctions Gallaecia 09 in Ourense province, in the Monastery of San Clodio, in Leiro. The final tasting took place...
"The R.S wines have the character of the vineyards from which they came"
What does the job of technical director of a D.O., in this case the Ribeira Sacra, consist of?
They organise and oversee the activities of the inspectors throughout the year. They...
In Spain, these hills are alive, again!
The New York Times
The stone terraces, thick with green vines, rise up the face of a mountain from the River Sil at the impossibly steep angle of a rocket ascending toward...
"Wine is the blood of de Ribeira Sacra"
Lois Diéguez was born in Monforte de Lemos in the forties; a native of the Ribeira Sacra, he recounts its history in the book, '??Viajes a las Tierras encantadas de Lemos? (Journeys in the enchanted...
The D.O. Ribeira Sacra triumphs at Aosta
The names of the prize-winning wines at the XVII International Competition of Mountain Wines, that takes place at Saint Vincent in Aosta, between the 2nd and the 4th of July are now known. The D.O....
51 WINES FROM THE D.O. RIBEIRA SACRA ACHIEVED
The tastings took place on the 30th of June in the tasting room at the Ribeira Sacra Wine Centre with the collaboration of the Regulatory Council of the Denominación de Origen Ribeira Sacra. The...
"An extraordinary area, with unique possibilities, to generate wealth"
José Mouriño Cuba, originating from the Terra Chá is a State Agricultural Technical Engineer and a biologist from the Galician Government´s Higher Faculty Body, where he is currently the Head of the...
The D.O. Ribeira Sacra offers exclusiveness in its wines
Importers, distributors and wine journalists from Belgium and Luxembourg participated in an exchange visit, that on Tuesday afternoon took them to the C.R.D.O.R.S headquarters.
A wine...
XV tasting of the Ribeira Sacra wines
The best wines from the D.O. Ribeira Sacra were announced, after holding the XV tasting of the Ribeira Sacra wines on Thursday and today. 13 tasters decided that the best red wines of the Ribeira...
"If one looks at where these wines are produced ....they are cheap"
When did you first become aware of the Ribeira Sacra?
I have known about it for a long-time. Somebody once said, ' if it didn´t exist, it would have to be created' and I believe that...
The wines of the D.O.R.S. are featuring in seminars and festivals.
The Galician European Business Centre held a seminar on the characteristics of the wine from the five Galician D.O.s. Run by David Barco, President of the Galician Association of...