Tolchards Wine Brochure 2023 - Magazine - Page 135
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There’s so much more to Spanish wine than Rioja,
but it’s a great place to start. Spain’s most famous red
wines offer an amazing variety of styles to suit any
taste. There’s a strict hierarchy involving the amount
of time the wines spend maturing in oak or the bottle
before release, from fresh, easy-drinking Joven with
no oak ageing to Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva
which have spent specific periods of maturation
both in oak barrels and in the bottle.
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Rioja also has brilliant food-friendly white wines made mostly
with the Viura grape. Beyond Rioja there is citrussy Albariño,
peachy Verdejo and Earthy, powerful Garnacha from Priorat
and muscular, spicey Tempranillo based Ribera del Duero.
“ Wine mak� every meal an occasion,
every table more elegant,
every day more civilized.”
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Andre Simon
