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Javier Pages, president of DO Cava, Spain

Cava Meeting: challenges and opportunities

The Cava Meeting is held every two years in and around Barcelona, and in November this year (2025), around 100 journalists, including BKWine, buyers, and others, gathered to take stock of the cava industry. In

Rodolfo Bastida, head winemaker at Ramón Bilbao, Rioja

A warmer Rioja requires more garnacha

In Rioja, tempranillo reigns supreme with 80% of the vineyard area. But perhaps not for much longer. It is getting warmer and drier and that is where tempranillo shows its limitations. Garnacha (grenache in France),

Pouring a glass of sparkling cava at the Giro Ribot winery in Catalonia

Cava: sales are down, but value is on its way up

The severe drought in Catalonia over the last three years has considerably reduced the production and supply capacity of the D.O. Cava. Thankfully, the rain did come at last this winter, and hopefully, the producers

The dramatic Cantabrian Mountains and vineyards in Rioja

Rioja: A Land of Three Voices and Three Regions

Rioja is a big wine region, covering some 60,000 hectares, but it has traditionally been thought of as one homogenous district in spite of it having three quite distinctive parts, Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa, and

Google Trends search data for "Italian wine" and "Spanish wine" over five years

Why is Italy doing so well? | New Brief #252

What can others learn from Italy? The country has been incredibly dominant in the Swedish market for several years. Italy sells twice as much as Spain and almost twice as much as France. Are the

A vineyard in Mallorca planted with the indigenous grape mantonegro

A crazy (?) good wine from Mallorca, Lo Foll

Lo Foll is the latest wine from the Mallorcan producer Terra de Falanis whose owners also make the AN and AN/2 wines at the Anima Negra winery. It is a lighter wine with less barrel

Vineyard landscape in Penedes in Catalonia, Spain

DO Penedès to be 100% organic by 2025

Catalan DO Penedès is just south of Barcelona. The region was a pioneer of organic viticulture in Spain 40 years ago. It was decided some time ago that the entire appellation would be organically grown

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