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Vintage
Tables Updated
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Sibaritas
Awards Announced
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Bacchus
Wine Awards Announced
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La
Mancha sales up in 1999
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La
Mancha 1999's
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Young
Wine Prize goes to Remírez de Ganuza
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The
first wines of 1999
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Madrid
Wines on the Web
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"Sibaritas" 1998 Wine Awards
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Madrid
winery
guide
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La
Mancha: Export Data
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Wine
Enthusiast picks La Mancha wine
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Prize Winners
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Vintage
Tables Updated
6 Jan 2001
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The Spanish Wine Page's Vintage Charts
have been updated to include data from the 1999 harvest.
Sibaritas
Critics' Awards
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30 Mar 2000
Sibaritas magazine's wine awards are one of the country's
most prestigious prizes. Each year a group of some 30 gourmet/wine journalists
and authors taste an extensive list of Spain's best wines to select year's
"Critics' Awards". The 1999 winners are:
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Wine of the Year: L'Ermita
1997, Alvaro Palacios, DO Priorat
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Winery of the Year: Fernándo
Remírez de Ganuza, DOC Rioja
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Wine Revelation of the Year: Grans
Muralles 1997,
Miguel Torres, DO Conca de Barberá (Catalonia)
This year's awards also include a special prize:
Winery of the Century:
González Byass, DO Jerez
The official ceremony will take place on 4 April at the Casino de Madrid.
Grans
Muralles and L'Ermita are single vineyard, old vines red wines.
González Byass is best known for their excellent "fino" sherry:
Tío Pepe. Sibaritas is a quarterly supplement
to the monthly Futuro magazine and is edited by José,
Peñín, one of the country's most knowledgable wine writers
and publisher of the Peñín Guide.
"Premios
Bacchus 2000" WIne Awards
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14 Feb 2000
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The results of one of the country's most prestigious wine competitions,
Premios
Bacchus 2000, was announced in Madrid last week. Four sets of prizes
are awarded in two categories: still wines and sparkling wines. The grand
prize winners were:
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Top Prize "Gran Bacchus de Oro" Still Wines
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Red wine
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Tinto Calderona Crainza 1996, Bodegas Frutos Villas, DO Cigales
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White wine
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Gutián Fermentado en Barrica 1998, Bodegas La Tapada, DO
Valdeorras
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Fortified wine
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Ceriñola Amontillado, Navisa Industrial Vinícola Española,
DO Jerez
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Top Prize "Gran Bacchus de Oro" Sparkling Wines
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Duc de Foix, COVISA, DO Cava (Spain)
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La Mancha:
Sales of bottled wine up 9.5% in 1999
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30 Jan 2000
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The La Mancha regional council (CRDO La Mancha) reports sales of bottled
La Mancha denomination wines increased from 64 million bottles in 1998
to over 70 million bottles in 1999 - an increase of 9.5%.
More importantly, sales of higher quality barrel aged DO La Mancha "crianza"
wines showed an even more vigorous 27.3% growth rate. The CRDO also
comments that the number of oak barrels for ageing has increased tenfold
from a mere 50,000 in 1990 to well over 500,000 in 1999.
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La Mancha
shows off the new crop of '99s
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20 Dec 1999
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Close to 1000 visitors to the recent launch of 1999 La Mancha wines sipped
and sampled their way through 80 of the region`s young wines presented
by 30 producers in Madrid:
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Most votes: Señorío
de Guadianeja Blanco (white wine, 100% Airén, Vinícola
de Castilla)
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White wines:
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Señorío de Guadianeja (100% Airén, Vinícola
de Castilla)
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Añil (100% Macabeo, Vinícola de Tomelloso)
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Clavelito (Coop Ntra Sra de la Piedad)
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Red wines:
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Viña Recreo (100% Tempranillo, Coop San Isidro)
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Castillo de Alhambra (100% Tempranillo, Vinícola de Castilla)
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Muzaraque (Coop Agrícola la Unión)
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Remírez
de Ganuza (Rioja) Selected Best Young Wine of 1999
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4 Dec 1999
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Last week, top Rioja winemaker Fernándo Remírez de Ganuza's
carbonic maceration red wine took top honors at "Primer
1999" in Madrid.
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The first of
Spain's 1999 harvest
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29 Nov 1999
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This week, the first Spanish wines of the 1999 vintage are being presented
in Madrid. On 26-28 November, newly fermented wines from some thirty wineries
around the country were presented at Madrid's Florida Park Hotel. Trade
visitors and press cast their votes for the best of show.
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Later this week, the La Mancha region plans to show off the new
harvest at the very same venue.
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The results and list prize winners from both presentations will be available
shortly.
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Madrid Wines
on the Web
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Nov 1999
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The Madrid regional wine council (CRDO Vinos de Madrid) has announced an
online presence for the region's wines and wineries. [Web in Spanish]
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http://www.vinosdemadrid.es
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"Sibaritas" Magazine's
Wine Awards for 1998
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May 1999
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"Sibaritas" magazine's presented one of the country's most prestigious
awards for Spanish wines. The selection is the "critics' choice" - led
by José Peñín, noted wine critic and the magazine's
editor, 30 odd wine critics and journalists form a panel and award three
prizes: the previous year's very best wine, best winery and
top
new wine. Interestingly enough, the overall winner was a dessert
wine made from the Pedro Ximénez grape from the lesser known Montilla-Moriles
region, while both the top winery and "revelation" wine are non-DO contenders.
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Here's the list:
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Spain's top wine: Alvear
Pedro Ximénez 1830 (DO Montilla-Moriles, dessert)
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Spain's best winery:
Abadía
Retuerta (non-DO)
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Top new wine of 1998:
Terreus"Pago
de Cueva Baja" 1996 (non-DO special cuveé red)
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And some of the finalists:
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Top 3 Whites
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Chivite Colección 125 late harvest 1997 (DO Navarra)
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Martín Codax "Gallaecia" 1996 (DO Rías Baixas)
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Guitian 1996 barrel fermented (DO Valdeorras)
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Top 6 Reds
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Artadi "Grandes Añadas" Reserva 1994 (DOC Rioja)
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Roda I Reserva 1994 (DOC Rioja)
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Alión Reserva 1994 (DO Ribera del Duero)
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L'Ermita 1995 (DO Priorat)
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Terreus "Pago de Cueva Baja" (non-DO)
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Torre Muga 1994 (DOC Rioja)
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Top 3 Cava (bubblies)
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Agustí Torelló Mata Brut Reserva (DO Cava)
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Anna de Cordoniu (DO Cava)
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Kripta (DO Cava)
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Top 3 fortified wines
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Alvear PX 1830 (DO Montilla-Moriles)
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Amontillado 51-1ª (DO Jerez)
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Del Duque Amontillado (DO Jerez)
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During and after the presentation of the awards, the press and other invitees
got a chance to sample the winning wines and many of the runners-up as
well. It is an excellent selection and the names here are a worthwhile
addition to any wine cellar.
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Jens Riis
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Madrid winery
visits
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Madrid, Apr 1999
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The DO Vinos de Madrid organization has announced a new guide for visitors
to the Madrid area wine district. the guide, "Guía de Vinos de Madrid",
offers advice and recommended routes through the towns of Arganda, Belmonte,
Chinchón, Colmenar de Oreja, Titulcia, Valdelaguna, Valdilecha,
Villaconejos and Villarejo de Salbanés. A future edition will also
include the sub-districts of San Martín and Navalcarnero.
Jens Riis, April 1999
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La Mancha
wine Exports
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San Juan de Alcázar, Mar 1999
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Just released by, the DO La Mancha "Consejo Regulador": Jan-Feb exports
up from 2,788,679 cases in 1998 to 3,589,660 cases in 1999. Germany leads
the list of importers of La Mancha wines, followed by United Kingdom, Netherlands,
Sweden and Japan.
Jens Riis, March 1999
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Wine Enthusiast
picks La Mancha wine
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San Juan de Alcázar, Mar 1999
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The DO La Mancha "Consejo Regulador" reports that Allozo Crianza 1994,
a barrel aged red from Bodegas Centro Españolas, was picked as an
excellent value by Michael Schachner of The Wine Enthuisast. Schachner
gives the wine a rating of 89 out of a possible 100 points.
Jens Riis, March 1999
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