Despite how round the Tempranillo grape is, it’s amazing how much it can suffer from being ‘double-edged’. It’s a grape capable of producing dump loads of cheap and cheerful red wines which, the DOC Rioja (as well as others in Spain) has been able to provide to the tunes of millions of liters. Much of this isn’t selling these days as it turns out the world has had just enough of that whole antioxidant ‘nonsense’ and winedrinkers feel they might not need as much cheap red wine as they thought […]
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