As the hometown of overseas Chinese, Qingtian has a long wine culture and tasting tradition, and the wine industry is also a pillar industry in Qingtian's import trade. Recently, the Qingtian Imported Wine Index trend review in May was officially released.
In May, the Qingtian Imported Wine Price Index closed at 99.26 points, down 0.11% from the previous period. The main reason for this is that Spain imported wine in order to promote sales sales, resulting in Spain imported wine price index fell by 0.59% compared with the previous period, closing at 102.34 points.
This issue of Qingtian Imported Wine Science Series will introduce the history, development and current situation of Spanish wine. Spanish wine has a long history, its viticulture dates back to about 4000 BC, and in 1100 BC, the Phoenicians began to make wine from grapes. Surrounded by the sea on three sides, Spain's climate type belongs to the Mediterranean climate and oceanic climate, combined with the local stone anorexia clay, the resulting wine is known for its delicate taste, high alcohol concentration and strong wine strength.
With 1.4 million hectares, Spain is the largest grape grower in the world, and many winemaking countries even buy grapes from them. However, the harsh growing environment and relatively extensive planting, and the use of compound farming, the planting of other fruit trees in the garden at the same time, coupled with the farmer's outdated cultivation technology, poor quality management and other factors, so that its wine production only accounts for the world's third, ranking after Italy and France. Spain has more than 600 grape varieties, mostly white. In recent years, Spain has made great strides in winemaking technology and has been recognized internationally.
Spain produces various types of wines, such as red, white and rosé wines, as well as some very expensive sparkling wines; Most of these are exported in bulk, and some wines are usually used as a seasoning to serve other liquors or sold locally. Among them, Sheery (a type of belligerent) is internationally famous and can be called a "national treasure" wine.
As of 2011, Spain has a total of 66 Legal Wine Regions (DO) and two DOCa regions, which produce a wide range of wine styles, including not only white, red and rosé, but also sparkling and belle.
Spain is currently divided into the following 17 major production areas according to administrative regions, and many DO and DOCa production areas tend to cross each other.
1. Rioja wine region
2. Castile and Leon wine region
3. Catalonia wine region
4. Navarre wine region
5. Castile-La Mancha wine region
6. Valencia wine region
7. Andalucia wine region
8. Galicia wine region
9. Basque wine region
10. Balearic Islands wine region
11. Canary Islands wine region
12. Asturias wine region
13. Cantabria wine region
14. Extremadura wine region
15. Aragon wine region
16. Murcia wine region
17. Madrid wine region
Rioja appellation
Spain has a complete set of regulations to regulate the quality of wine. There are more than 50 concessions in Spain, namely DO (Denominaciones de Origen). Particularly outstanding areas are called DOCa (Denominaciones de Origen Calificada), the first to be listed as a DOCa appellation is the Rioja appellation, and the other is Priorat in Catalonia. The more common induction is Vinodela Tierra, which is equivalent to the French VendéPays. The most basic table wine is VineMesa. Behind each bottle of wine from a concessionaire must be indicated the age of the winery, with four different rules.
Sin Crianza, or VinoJoven, which directly translates to "young wine," means that the wine "may" not have been aged.
Crianza is a wine kept in the winery for two years, of which six months are aged in small wooden barrels. The shelf life of white wine and rose red is reduced to one year.
Reserva is brewed three years after it is made, with at least one year spent in barrels and the rest in bottles. The time of white wine and rose red in the factory is reduced to two years, and the years in wooden barrels are halved.
GranReaerva is a five-year-old wine, three of which are aged in wooden barrels, two years in bottles, and vice versa. Baijiu and rose red in the factory time is reduced to four years, and six months are spent in wooden barrels.
In recent years, the development of Qingtian imported wine industry is in full swing, its imported wines based on Spain, France, Italy and other old world wines, whether it is price or quality, have a strong competitiveness in the domestic wine industry, Qingtian County enterprises use in-depth cooperation with foreign wineries, domestic agents and other forms of operation, Qingtian wine original bottle imports, European straight hair quality image is gradually deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
List of some enterprises operating Spanish imported wines in Qingtian County (in no particular order)
Atolle Import & Export Trading Co., Ltd
Qingtian Liuhe Trading Co., Ltd
Zhejiang Silu Wine Co., Ltd
Qingtian County Kangke Liquor Co., Ltd
Qingtian County Maklo Import & Export Trade Co., Ltd
Zhejiang Xidu Trading Co., Ltd
Qingtian Hengze Datai Import & Export Co., Ltd
Yeosu Sunflower Import & Export Co., Ltd
Zhejiang Oulai Import & Export Co., Ltd
Zhejiang Faxi Wine Industry Co., Ltd
Qingtian Huachuang Trading Co., Ltd
Qingtian County Kaixilei Import and Export Trade Co., Ltd
Qingtian Wanwei Import & Export Trading Co., Ltd
Qingtian Xujin Import & Export Trading Co., Ltd
(For content, refer to China Wine Information Network and Baidu Encyclopedia)