Spain and Portugal begin harvest after 'difficult' year
Spain and Portugal begin harvest after 'difficult' year
Oct 1, 2011 6
(Decanter) - High temperatures in August and September have led to an early harvest across Spain.Scarce rainfall in the same period also means that yields are down for many regions including Rioja and Castilla-La Mancha, by as much as 30% in some cases.
Notable exceptions are the white wine regions Rías Baixas and Rueda, where the crop is expected to match 2010 or far exceed it.
‘[In Rías Baixas] bud-break and flowering were good and there wasn’t much mildew throughout the growing season despite the humidity and heat,’ Eva Mínguez of the Rias Baixas Consejo Regulador said.
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