The largescale border conflict between denominations of origin (DO) in the Autonomous Region of Valencia in Spain that was reported on back in February of this year appears to have continuing issues. In brief, at stake was the fact that agreements from several decades ago allowed DO Valencia to buy in grapes from both DO Utiel-Requena as well as DO Alicante. This was done because back in those days these two DOs weren’t selling wines nearly as well as they do today but Valencia was. Now, times have changed and […]

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