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'Wine from the Ribeira Sacra is more than just wine'
Raquel Arias, from Proendos, in the council of Sober. Qualified as a journalist but who today has the position of Delegate of the Galician Government for Lugo Province following on from many years as...
Ribeira Sacra evaluation 2009
The D.O. Ribeira Sacra ended a year that was fantastic on all levels and it hopes to continue this success during the coming year.
The year was characterised by the selling of all the...
'A wine from the Ribeira Sacra can only be made in the Ribeira Sacra'
Alfonso Losada, from Pantón, town council of the Ribeira Sacra, has spent all his life working within the wine sector. He is currently focusing his work on education and research through EVEGA, the...
It´s now not impossible to be thinking about getting 10 m. k. in the future
In mid October the D.O. Ribeira Sacra brought the grape harvest to a close with provisional figures of more than 5 million kilos of grapes collected. It was the second time the harvest has exceeded...
A LOVE AFFAIR WITH MENCÍA WINES
Wines from Spain News
It is no secret that I am a fan of Spanish wines, as I have now been preaching the gospel for over 20 years. I have nurtured a love affair with many of the...
The D.O. Ribeira Sacra is finalising this years grape harvest
The provisional figures of the harvest, by grape variety are:
Mencía:4.689.542
Brancellao:10.028
Merenzao:10.799
Caíño:2.673
Ribeira Sacra exceeds the quantity of grapes collected in the last campaign
The D.O. Ribeira Sacra continues on with the work of harvesting the grapes, the figures for the grapes harvested by variety on the 30th of September were the following:
Mencía:...
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...