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Rías Baixas has its own denominación de origen designation of origin.
Apr 14, 2015 - 7:57 PM
15 of the world’s top wine experts have visited the wine producing area in Rías Baixas
Rías Baixas has its own denominación de origen designation of origin.
Apr 14, 2015 - 7:57 PM
That the Rías Baixas white wines are among the best in the world is something known; ‘now what’s left is for the Galician to believe it’, so said the only Spanish ‘Master of Wine’, Pedro Ballesteros, during a visit he made on Monday this week to the designation of origin, with another 15 members of this select club which brings together the top wine experts of the world.
In agreement with him was the president of the Masters of Wine Institute, the Briton Sarah Jane Evans, ‘The producers have to export and defend the price’, because the qualification of quality, in her criteria, has already been amply approved.
‘The albariño wines are the best of the white wines in Spain, and this is well known in the United Kingdom and the United States. The best whites from Galicia are impressive’.
‘The albariño is more than an industry which produces wine to drink. The albariño has history, and history is what the vineyards need. The good thing about Galicia is the wines have their own identity and this has to be protected’.
Evans also underlined the capacity which Rías Baixas has to conjure tradition and innovation, because despite the small area of this designation compared to others, we continue to investigate and achieve ever better and different wines to put to market, such as the new sparkling wines.
Pedro Ballesteros said ‘This is the Silicon Valley of wine; here we experiment a great deal. I am very confident in the future of Galicia’.
He was standing by the vats of stainless steel of Pazo Baión, one of the bodegas visited by this delegation of experts after participating in the first hour of the morning at an event at the Pontevedra Regulatory Council where they tasted as many as 61 wines from 33 exporting bodegas.
It’s the first time this institute has made an official visit to Rías Baixas, although some had visited early by themselves. That is the case of Sarah Jane Evans, who knows Galicia and now returns home in the company of another seven Masters of Wine in her country. Other members of the institute had travelled from the United States, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Norway, masters who note the quality and the variety of the white Galician and are who are left in wonder at the culture which accompanies the wine and the landscape where the vines grow.
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In agreement with him was the president of the Masters of Wine Institute, the Briton Sarah Jane Evans, ‘The producers have to export and defend the price’, because the qualification of quality, in her criteria, has already been amply approved.
‘The albariño wines are the best of the white wines in Spain, and this is well known in the United Kingdom and the United States. The best whites from Galicia are impressive’.
‘The albariño is more than an industry which produces wine to drink. The albariño has history, and history is what the vineyards need. The good thing about Galicia is the wines have their own identity and this has to be protected’.
Evans also underlined the capacity which Rías Baixas has to conjure tradition and innovation, because despite the small area of this designation compared to others, we continue to investigate and achieve ever better and different wines to put to market, such as the new sparkling wines.
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Pedro Ballesteros said ‘This is the Silicon Valley of wine; here we experiment a great deal. I am very confident in the future of Galicia’.
He was standing by the vats of stainless steel of Pazo Baión, one of the bodegas visited by this delegation of experts after participating in the first hour of the morning at an event at the Pontevedra Regulatory Council where they tasted as many as 61 wines from 33 exporting bodegas.
It’s the first time this institute has made an official visit to Rías Baixas, although some had visited early by themselves. That is the case of Sarah Jane Evans, who knows Galicia and now returns home in the company of another seven Masters of Wine in her country. Other members of the institute had travelled from the United States, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Norway, masters who note the quality and the variety of the white Galician and are who are left in wonder at the culture which accompanies the wine and the landscape where the vines grow.
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