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Project Garnacha is a family effort to produce good quality wines from a neglected vineyard in Spain. 

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The plot was grim when we first took over, a reminder of how things get out of hand when you don't look after them. Planted at 600m altitude the vines enjoy a typical mediterranean weather, low temperatures in winter (2C on average) and high during summer (33C on average). The original vines were planted in 1985-86, currently 29-30 years old. We could hardly open the gate and about a quarter of the original vines had died. Nothing like a good challenge!

Spain is the country with the largest surface dedicated to vine cultivation in the world (1.6m ha). This represents 30% of all vine cultivation in Europe (15% worldwide) followed by France and Italy at 22% of total surface respectively. About half the production is exported to the UK (19%), Germany (20%) and the US (10%). In spite of these figures hundreds of vineyards are abandoned as wine making and wine drinking is seen as unfashionable by young generations of Spaniards.

 

Useful links

http://www.jancisrobinson.com/categories/learn_about_wine.html

http://www.wine-searcher.com/

http://www.wsetglobal.com/

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