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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...
"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...