The Penedès region is as vast as it is small. Bisected by an ugly gash that is the AP-7 highway, there are more than 30,000ha of vineyards spread across the plain and into the lower reaches of the hills that bound it. Put into a size context, it’s about half the total of behemoth stalwart, DOC Rioja, which makes Penedès one of Spain’s biggest DO wine regions. The catch is, there’s only a small portion of this total that finds its way to the DO Penedès still wines. With about […]

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