Grandes Pagos de España

Pago is a Spanish word that might cause confusion for wine consumers. It has many different meanings. According to the Real Academia Española de la Lengua (a Spanish publication that might be compared to the Oxford English Dictionary) it is really ambiguous and ranges from a district of particular land for vines and olives, to a small town or village, a place where a person has settled, or a region. The vagueness of the definition is exacerbated by the Spanish wine trade, who use it to describe various particularities of a wine made from a specific vineyard or pago...