12 Facts About Spanish wine

Spanish wine includes red, white, and sparkling wines produced throughout the country.

Major Spanish wine regions include the Rioja and Ribera del Duero, which are known for their Tempranillo production; Jumilla, known for its Monastrell production; Jerez de la Frontera, the home of the fortified wine Sherry; Rias Baixas in the northwest region of Galicia that is known for its white wines made from Albarino and Catalonia which includes the Cava and still wine-producing regions of the Penedes as well the Priorat region.

Under Roman rule, Spanish wine was widely exported and traded throughout the Roman empire.

Spanish wine was provided to Roman soldiers guarding border settlements in Britain and the Limes Germanicus in Germania.

The emergence of growing Spanish wine industries in Mexico, Peru, Chile and Argentina was a threat to this income, with Philip III and succeeding monarchs issuing decrees and declarations ordering the uprooting of New World vineyards and halting the production of Spanish wine by the colonies.

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However the Spanish wine industry was falling behind those of other European countries who were embracing the developments of the early Industrial Age.

One of the dominant geographical influences of Spanish wine viticulture is the vast plateau known as the Meseta Central that covers much of central Spain.

Spanish wine laws created the Denominacion de Origen system in 1932 that were later revised in 1970, and recently updated in 2016 to be called DOP denominacion de origen protegida .

Many Spanish wine vineyards are several decades old, with the old vines producing even lower yields of fruit.

In 1996, the practice of using irrigation in all Spanish wine regions was legalized with many regions quickly adopting the practice.

Spanish wine'srry is a heavily fortified wine produced in southern Spain around the towns of Jerez, Sanlucar de Barrameda, and El Puerto de Santa Maria.

Cava is a Spanish sparkling wine made in the traditional method of the French sparkling wine Champagne.