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Spain is a haphazard jumble of regions and subregions, just as its landscape is a haphazard jumble of incredibly raw landscapes. A glance at a map reveals the climatic diversity among Spain’s many wine regions, from the soggy green vineyards of Galicia on the northern Atlantic coast to the toasty vineyards of the southeastern Mediterranean. Spain’s saving grace, in terms of viticulture, is the average altitude of its vineyards, which is over 2,000 feet. Many of Spain’s vineyards thus manage to produce grapes of good color and acidity simply because nighttime temperatures are relatively low and the grapes don’t ripen until the end of a sufficiently long growing season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBut there is a real treasure to be found for those willing to dig, and now that a class of connoisseurs has developed in Spain, all sorts of ambitious investors have done their part to change the image of Spanish wine. Today, a new generation of winemakers has quietly begun to make spectacular wines and experiment with grape varieties that would have been unthinkable not long ago. Wine remains an important commodity and an integral part of Spanish culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alfredo-maestro-tejero-a-dos-tiempos-espagne","title":"Alfredo Maestro Tejero - A Dos Tiempos - 2017","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eProduced \u003cstrong\u003ebiodynamically\u003c\/strong\u003e , the “A Dos Tiempos” vintage means “ \u003cstrong\u003eIn two stages\u003c\/strong\u003e ” and comes from the fact that the grapes are \u003cstrong\u003eharvested twice\u003c\/strong\u003e for each variety. The fruit comes from a single plot of \u003cstrong\u003eTempranillo\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGrenache\u003c\/strong\u003e over 30 years old. The fruits are destemmed and fermented with \u003cstrong\u003ewild yeasts\u003c\/strong\u003e . 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