Wines made from Bobal grapes - Page 4

‘Por fin se ha hecho justicia.’ (Finally, justice has been served) This strongly-worded statement was made by the Denomination of Origin Utiel-Requena in Spain’s Autonomous Region of Valencia as part of a press announcement in July. It refers to a Spanish Supreme Court ruling that was fully ratified at the end of September, closing a decade-long conflict between the region’s three DOs that pitted Valencia against Utiel-Requena and Alicante. The latter two had demanded that grapes fro ...

Proposed changes to retained EU laws on wine production and marketing will allow winemakers to choose from a wider range of vines, including more disease resistant varieties, the UK government said. It also said importers will be able to blend bulk wine in the UK, and they will be permitted to carbonate, sweeten or de-alcoholise it, too. Coffey claimed the changes will ‘put a rocket under our winemakers’ businesses’ and give them the ‘freedom they need to thrive’. Ministers initially pledged to ...

Having left the ranks of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) in 2008, Ukraine has again joined the leading intergovernmental institution. This brings the total number of member countries up to 49. The renewed membership is effective from 30 October and was formalised on Friday 4 November at the OIV’s General Assembly in Baja California, Mexico. The plenary session, which closed the institution’s 43rd annual congress, had its most symbolic and heartfelt moment when the Ukrainian ...