WINES: Spain, Uncorked
- Paolo Galloni
- 21 minutes ago
- 4 min read
Let’s be honest: Spain is not an easy country to “revise.” It’s sprawling, mountainous, rule-loving, grape-alias-hoarding, and climatically dramatic. Trying to memorize it from a textbook can feel like cramming for a geography exam you didn’t realize you signed up for.
But in the glass? Spain makes perfect sense.
Because Spanish wine is, at its heart, a story of persistence, of growers who looked at land that was too hot, too dry, too windy, too high (and often all four) and said, we’ll plant vines anyway.
That stubbornness is why Spain today has the largest vineyard area in the world, yet only the third-highest production volume. The vines don’t have it easy. They struggle. And struggle, in wine, often translates into depth, personality, and a sense of place you can’t fake.
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