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Associated Press
11 hours ago
- Business
- Associated Press
THE EU FAB 6 BRINGS GARNACHA AND BORDEAUX WINES BACK TO THE UK
Three successful roadshows engage wine professionals in Edinburgh, Manchester and London ROMA, ITALY, June 9, 2025 / / -- 'The EU Fab 6 – Savour the PDO and PGI Wines and Deli Meats from Europe' campaign launched its second year of activities with a dynamic start in the United Kingdom. Three exclusive roadshows dedicated to European wines took place last week in Edinburgh, Manchester, and London, bringing together over 160 professionals from the UK's wine, hospitality, and food & beverage industries, offering an exclusive opportunity to discover PDO-certified wines from Spain and France. Each event featured a carefully curated tasting experience, highlighting the expressive Garnacha PDO wines from Spain and the elegant, terroir-driven wines from the Premières Côtes de Bordeaux and Cadillac PDO region in France. The Edinburgh and Manchester events were organized in collaboration with The Drinks Business, while the London roadshow took place in the prestigious setting of Hispania, in the heart of the capital. Across all three cities, the events created meaningful moments of discovery and connection between producers and professionals. The union of these two European regions is an excellent representation of high-quality European wines. From Spain, the Garnacha wines on offer showcased the diversity and expressiveness of this historic European grape, with selections from its birthplace PDOs of Calatayud, Cariñena, Terra Alta, Priorat, and Campo de Borja. Known for their richness, structure, and growing international acclaim, these wines represent both tradition and innovation in Spanish winemaking. From France, the wines of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux region embodied elegance, balance, and a deep sense of terroir. Produced by multi-generational family estates, the wines delivered a compelling tasting experience reflecting the craftsmanship and heritage of one of France's most renowned wine regions. The roadshows featured walk-around tastings alongside educational sessions, offering insight into PDO certifications and the guarantee of origin, quality, and tradition they represent. Attendees had the chance to meet and interact directly with producers from both Spain and France. The enthusiastic turnout and positive feedback from participants confirmed the strong interest in certified European wines. The events contributed to strengthening the presence and awareness of PDO wines in the UK market, while reinforcing the values of authenticity, quality and traceability at the heart of the EU Fab 6 campaign. These three events marked a strong start to the campaign's second year, promoting PDO wines in a key international market and raising awareness of their value among professionals and trade specialists. Co-financed by the European Union, 'The EU Fab 6 – Savour the PDO and PGI Wines and Deli Meats from Europe' campaign promotes European excellence in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Through tastings, education, and promotional events, the campaign supports the visibility and appreciation of products marked with the PDO and PGI labels. The initiative is supported by six prestigious consortia: • Consorzio Italiano Tutela Mortadella Bologna (Italy) – project leader • Consorzio Cacciatore Italiano (Italy) • Consorzio Zampone e Cotechino Modena PGI (Italy) • ODG des Premières Côtes de Bordeaux et Cadillac (France) • Asociación para la Promoción del vino de Garnacha – Garnacha Origen (Spain) • Consorzio Tutela Vini d'Abruzzo (Italy) Follow us to discover more about the exceptional quality of European PDO and PGI deli meats and wines: Facebook @theeufab6uk, Instagram @ and YouTube @TheEUFab6 Press Office Blancdenoir Communication Agency Piazza Matteotti 25 (Galleria Barchetta, II piano) 25015 – Desenzano del Garda (BS) Tel +39 030 7741535 Email: [email protected] Blancdenoir Communication agency email us here Visit us on social media: Instagram Facebook YouTube Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
The Guardian
16-03-2025
- General
- The Guardian
The many joys of Spain's fruity garnacha grape
Alfredo Maestro El Marciano Garnacha, Castilla y León, Spain 2022 (from £23.35, Over the past couple of decades, few would dispute that Spain has been one of the two or three most exciting wine countries in the world. From Galicia in the far northwest to Jumilla in the southeast, a wine culture that had for much of the 20th century tended to the suffocatingly stuffy and traditional (with a surfeit of dusty wines to match), and then, in the 1990s and early 2000s, overcompensated with wines that were too-often flashy, overblown and lacking in local character, has been reinvigorated by a bunch of curious and sensitive winemakers rediscovering old vines and local grapes to make wines full of distinctive personality. It's a shift in approach and style that can be summed up in microcosm by the return to prominence of the widely planted but hitherto rather underrated red grape variety, garnacha, in wines of fragrant, joyously juicy expressiveness such as El Marciano. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Joan D'Anguera Altaroses, Montsant, Spain 2021 (£26.45, Like many of the best new-wave Spanish garnachas, El Marciano comes from old vines (70 years old in this case) growing in remote high-altitude sites (El Marciano comes from a site in Avila province at some 1,000m above sea level) on granite soils in the Sierra de Gredos mountain range west of Madrid. Gredos garnachas from producers such as Daniel Ramos, Daniel Landi, and Bodegas Marañones, tend to have a slinky feel, pale colour, red-fruited charm and aromatic finesse that invites comparisons with pinot noir from Burgundy – albeit with southern scents of wild herbs, fennel and subtle warm earthiness. There is a similar sense of roeship and cherry fruit and levity of feel mixed with Mediterranean wild herbiness in the wines made at the biodynamic Joan D'Anguera winery in another Garnacha hotspot: Catalonia's Montsant, not least in their exquisite single-vineyard wine, Altaroses. Ramón Bilbao Edición Limitada Garnacha, Rioja, Spain 2020 (£17.95, Other garnachas I've enjoyed recently include a pair from the northeastern region of Aragon: the gloriously supple, unforced blackcurrant, cherry and raspberry of Bodega Jesus Romero Rubus Quercus 2023 (£15, from the highlands of Calatayud and the bargainous, slightly sweet, big-and-bouncy berry fruit of Asda Extra Special Garnacha 2023 (£6.75) from the Cariñena appellation. Spain's most important red-wine region, Rioja, has also been getting in on the garnacha act, with the variety, which for years has played second fiddle to tempranillo, enjoying a new lease of life. Wines and smaller producers to look out for include Sierra de Toloño (La Dula), Contino and Miguel Merino (la Insula), but the fashion has very much hit the Rioja mainstream, with one of Rioja's biggest producers, Campo de Viejo, making a good-value bright-and-juicy expression that you can find in most supermarkets for around £7, and the consistently good Ramón Bilbao having just introduced a lush but refined and nicely balanced limited edition bottling.
