From http://www.espanishwines.com/spanish-wines/spanish-wine-a-briefspanish-wine-review
Welcome to espanishwines.com, a website that will currently be dedicated to providing useful information about Spanish wines and their growing popularity in the international wine scene. Eventually, the plans for this website will include an area to purchase these wines and highlight a particular wine-maker or wine making region each week or two. The site will then grow to include events or conferences and maybe even message boards (I am aiming high). For now though, I will provide thorough information through my blog posts about the distinct wine regions and the unique wines they produce. I sincerely hope you all get as much of this website as you can and if you love Spanish wine already then hopefully you will gain a greater appreciation for it through my information and soon to be available wine products. For those of you that are just being introduced to this great wine then enjoy the website and (almost) everything there is to know about wine from Spain.
A quick review of Spanish wine
The best known wines that come from Spain are Sherry, Rioja red wines, and the sparkling “Cava” wines. Even though their wines are not as well known internationally compared to the French or Italian wines, Spain acutally has the largest land mass dedicated to producing wines of any country in the world. However, Spain is only the third largest wine-producing country (behind France and Italy). Similar to most wine-producing European countries, Spain actually has distinct wine-making regions within the country that all fall under the laws, standards, and regulations provided under the Denominación de Origen (“DO”) system that tests and evaluates each wine. Spanish wines will have a label that will disclose the age of each wine, the three most common age labels are Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva wines.
Crianza wines have only aged for 2 years with at least one year spent in a cask (usually made of oak).
Reserva wines have aged 3 years with 1 year spent in the cask
Gran Reserva wines have ged at least 5 years with 2 in the cask and three years in the bottle
4 types of wines are made in Spain. Red wine (“vinos tintos”), white wine (“vinos blancos”), rose wines (“vinos rosados”), and their well known “cava,” or “el Cava” sparkling wines.
There will be many more posts to come with in-depth information about each particular wine-making region of Spain, as well as notes about particualar wine producers in each region. As espanishwines.com develops further it will eventually include a shopping section where any of the wines that I mention (and more) will be available for sale directly from this website.
Enjoy!
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