Author: Matthew Desoutter

Header image: Terra Alta Landscape by Angela Llop / CC BY-SA

Take the road to Terra Alta (literally high land) and you begin to understand the region’s struggle to get on Spain’s wine map. Stuck in the far south-west of Catalunya, on the right bank of the Ebro river, getting here can be a trek. County capital Gandesa is just 55 km inland from the Mediterranean, but if you’re unlucky enough to get stuck behind a lorry as it clanks its way through the gears on the climb up from Reus, it can feel a lot further.

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With Spain slowly edging its way out of lockdown, we’ve been speaking to some of the wineries we work with to see how they have weathered the crisis and are adapting to the new normal.

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Photo by Abel Valdenebro

Spanish winemaker and “terroir hunter” Luis Olivan tells us about his new project searching out small plots to create wines that transmit a sense of place.

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The Spanish Wine Lover website was set up in September 2014 to help wine lovers around the world learn more about the regions, wineries, landscapes and people that make Spain one of the most innovative and exciting wine-producing countries in the world right now. The international, multilingual team have just won their third consecutive IWC award for Best Online Platform in recognition of their contribution to raising the profile of the Spanish wine sector internationally. We caught up with Spanish Wine Lover’s founder, Amaya Cervera, to find out more.

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With Sherry Week just around the corner, we invited our elusive Mancunian friend @undertheflor to tell us why the traditional wines of Andalucía are such a treat for the senses.

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