For the 2024 harvest, the governing council of DOC Rioja has officially endorsed harvest yields for red grape varieties that are at 90% of what is allowed while white varieties remain the same. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that they started to enact changes last year to deal with a surplus of wine in the region which has become a huge problem due to changing tastes and other issues. The surplus has been chipped away at in theory via distilling it, but it was rumored to […]
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