Bodegas Barbadillo have launched
a new wine called Erytea, made from the Verdejo grape. In the lare 1990s Barbadillo
began experimenting with planting foreign grape varieties in their vineyards
including Riesling, Sauvignon and Chardonnay. In 2007 they brought six clones
of Verdejo to see how they would grow in the chalky albariza soils of the Finca Santa
Lucía
near Jerez. The vines adapted to their new conditions remarkably well and now
extend to some 25 hectares. Verdejo is a Spanish variety native to the north
west and is enormously popular at the moment. The wine´s name, Erytea, refers
to Cádiz
which is considered the oldest city in the west. Over its near 3,000 year
history it has develod into an archipelago of three islands which the Greeks
called Gadeiras, Erytheia and Hispania. The bottle is designed top pay homage
to the Greeks who settled and christened the bay of Cádiz.
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