The precocity of the vine-growing cycle and high temperatures in summer led to very early harvesting dates. The health of the grapes as they came into the wineries was excellent. The 2011 vintage was one of the earliest on record in the Rueda appellation, having begun on August 23rd and finished on October 7th. The absence of cold weather during March and April caused early and fast vine …
Sales of wines from the Rueda appellation continue their upward trend with a further rise during the first semester of 2011, confirmed through the issue of a total of 32,279,720 back labels (officially confirmed sales), which amounts to an increase of 10,35% compared with the same period last year (3.028.498 bottles more). AC Nielsen has presented the Rueda appellation’s wineries with …
The visit began with a tasting on Sunday at the Hotel AC Santa Ana where the President od the Rregulatory Council, D. Francisco Javier de IScar Martínez, welcomed the group. In this visit that takes place from Sunday 3 July until Wednesday 6, sommeliers and journalists, come from Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, will have …
35thedition – April 8th & 9th 2011- Bourg (Bourdeaux) Among the 5,000 samples, the Spanish Wines got 42 gold medalls, 51 silver medals and 87 bronze medals. The Rueda wines obteined 1 gold and 3 silver medals. http://www.challengeduvin.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&tmpl=recherche-en&annee=2011&Itemid=521
The Rueda Control Board has officially ranked the 2010 vintage as VERY GOOD. Sales of wines from the Rueda appellation continue their upward trend with a further rise during the first quarter of 2011, confirmed through the issue of a total of 15,464,267 back labels (officially confirmed sales), which amounts to an increase of 18.37% compared with the same period last year …
2010 was another year of record highs for the Rueda appellation, not only in terms of volume of sales but also in surface area under vine and quantity of grapes harvested. Four new wineries also joined the appellation during the year.
Vineyard health conditions are excellent and the Verdejo grape harvest will be generalized in the second half of September. Despite of the vegetative cycle began with a slight delay compared with the last harvest, the first grapes of Sauvignon Blanc Varieties are already being harvested because of an earlier ripening than the other varieties. Specifically, the first grapes were picked on the …
Rueda also moves up to second place in the on-trade sector with a market share of 8.9%, making it the consumers’ first choice white wine. AC Nielsen has presented the Rueda appellation’s wineries with its 2009 survey of the Spanish wine market, in which it shows the appellation’s continuing positive trend despite the very negative context in the wine sector as a whole. Whilst …
In spite of falling wine consumption and the economic crisis, the rising trend in sales of the Rueda appellation’s wines brings about a positive start to the year. The 13,063,949 back labels delivered by the Rueda control board for sales in the first quarter of 2010 provided a very positive statistic for the Rueda appellation, indicating an increase of 10.6% on the same period in …
During the celebration of the Alimentaria Barcelona Fair was an interesting "duel" between the two more famous varieties of white wines in Sapin: the Verdejo grape, from the Rueda D.O.(defended by the winery Cuatro Rayas- Agricola Castellana) and the Albariño grape, from the Rias Baixas D.O. (defended by the winery Martín Codax)