It’s called Love in March and has a smoky flavour. Youll mostly find Cava production in Catalonia in the northeast of Barcelona. She’s still struggling to perfect a request for an ice-cream that tastes of sausages cooking on the barbecue. But one country seems almost immune to this kind of criticism. Cava is the famous sparkling wine of Spain. In fact we think we've heard people tell us that they don't like the wines from almost every country that makes wine in our time. Champions of Spain’s diversity articulate a wine scene that has for some time been generating excitement, revealing an increasingly compelling collective offer, with individuality, accessibility and sense of place to the fore. Those who say that South African wines all taste like burnt rubber, those who aren't keen on the bubbles in Champagne, those who find red Burgundy too thin for their tastes or those who don't like the brashness of Australian wine. The southern Mediterranean region of Spain includes appellations like Utiel-Requena, Yecla, Jumilla and Bullas, producing fruit-forward wines from Monastrell. Spain now has confidence to ‘walk naked in the street’. Over the last 50 years, as we're sure you can imagine, here at Oddbins we've heard almost everything. Spain has long been known as a country that is a prime location for wine lovers and the country itself has a very rich history when it comes to the cultivation of wine grapes and the production of wine. We're pretty sure that you already love Spanish wine as much as we do, so there isn't much more to say, other than to remember that although Rioja is King, there is so much more to Spain, so don't miss out on its neighbour Ribera del Duero or the lesser known regions of Rueda, Bierzo, Galcia, Valencia, the list goes on. Tempranillo and Garnacha dominate the red wines of Spain, but inexpensive gems can be found in many other varieties as well, especially whites such as Albarino. The Best Spanish Wines: Full Guide by Variety and Region. Growing over 600 different grape varieties, they have as firm a grasp on tradition as they do on the new and adventurous and we're not sure that anyone understands the power of a good label better than these guys. This year we have two wines from Ribera del Duero representing the best wines of Spain, this Canta la Perdiz and the famous Pingus by Peter Sisseck, two different ways of interpreting Ribera wine.
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