Tempranillo takes over Spain
10 Nov 2004 by JR
Tempranillo takes over Spain Victor de la Serna, Madrid: Jancis, this discussion has brought to my memory a question you asked last summer and that I had forgotten to answer, on the current state of tempranillo's plantings in Spain . The short answer: it's like the damned cabernet sauvignon internationally, a real pest! In Castilla-La Mancha alone, about 40,000 new hectares since 1997. My current guess of the tempranillo surface for the whole of Spain is about 140,000 hectares. Just plain too much, if you...

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