THE RUEDA APPELLATION CONSOLIDATES ITS POSITION AS MARKET LEADER IN QUALITY WHITE WINES WITH A SHARE OF 29.1%.

Rueda also moves up to second place in the on-trade sector with a market share of 8.9%, making it the consumers’ first choice white wine. AC Nielsen has presented the Rueda appellation’s wineries with its 2009 survey of the Spanish wine market, in which it shows the appellation’s continuing positive trend despite the very negative context in the wine sector as a whole. Whilst …

TASTINGS IN WINE UNIVERSITIES

    Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET): April, 13 California Polytechnical State University- Ponoma (Los Angeles): April, 19  Napa Valley Collage, Napa, CA: April, 21 Presentación de vino en Los Angeles: May, 12 Meadwood (St. Helena, California): June, 26  Learn About Wines (Los Angeles, California): June, 27  California Culinary Academy (San …

RUEDA APPELLATION SALES GROW BY 10.56% IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2010

In spite of falling wine consumption and the economic crisis, the rising trend in sales of the Rueda appellation’s wines brings about a positive start to the year. The 13,063,949 back labels delivered by the Rueda control board for sales in the first quarter of 2010 provided a very positive statistic for the Rueda appellation, indicating an increase of 10.6% on the same period in …

DUEL OF THE TITANS: RUEDA AND RIAS BAIXAS

During the celebration of the Alimentaria Barcelona Fair  was an interesting "duel" between the two more famous varieties of white wines in Sapin: the Verdejo grape, from the Rueda D.O.(defended by the winery Cuatro Rayas- Agricola Castellana) and the  Albariño grape, from the Rias Baixas D.O. (defended by the winery Martín Codax)