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Spain: a garden grape of varieties
Photographer / Author: Antonio de Benito / ICEX

Text
Andrés Proensa
Translation
Hawys Pritchard

Date
May-August 2006
Printed Issue
Nº 67 (English)

There are grape varieties we’ve always known and there are new ones; varieties that predominate in particular areas and minority ones; leading international varieties and ones brought back from the brink of extinction. Far from heading towards globalization and adopting an overall approach to viticulture, each of Spain’s wine-producing areas is making the most of its own particular features and creating a vivid, variegated garden in the process. And this is just the beginning.