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Spain: Reflections

Spain is a wine country hugeeven more if we consider the hectares under vines, which will be discussed below, increased by half a million in the last decade.
There is often a tendency to lump the Spanish wine tradition with that of Italy, but in reality have very little in common. Italy is a peninsula where you are never too far from the mountains as well as the sea, and until two centuries ago it was a conglomerate of separate states and craft businesses. Spain, on the contrary, has an empire and an important unitary history behind it, but until recently its range of wines was rather limited.
In the last 30 years we are witnessing a real revolution, in terms of quantity and above all quality, as we will see later.
Spain's latitude is much more favourable than France's, but the vast majority of Spanish vineyards are located at higher altitudes than in France, which helps to maintain sufficient acidity for relatively fresh wines.
Winters in Spain are cold and summers torrid, with the sun so relentless that it stops the ripening of the grapes until autumn, when they begin their cycle again to accumulate sugars and aromas before the temperatures drop; the summer drought is a major problem afflicting almost the entire country.
Excessively dry soils cannot sustain high-density vineyards for this reason the screws are traditionally far apart and irrigation is permitted by law.
After a period of decline, the number of hectares planted with vines in Spain has risen again, and has done so so exponentially, that they are now 1.3 million against very low yields, bringing total Spanish production to just under 40 million hectolitres. The number of Spanish wineries is around 50 thousand for an export turnover of almost EUR 3 billion per year

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