Link profile: D.O. Utiel-Requena

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An ancient wine-making region on a plateau amidst the hills and mountains marking the edge of the meseta, named after the adjacent (to each other) towns of Utiel and Requena. Its climate is more continental than Mediterranean, indeed is particularly harsh, but rainfall is low, sunlight plentiful, and the whole region is nicely drained by its gentle sllope towards the sea. The autochthonous Bobal grape variety is the most popular and is particularly suited to these climes, and was resistant enough to the phyloxara plague to allow the region to flourish in the late eighteen hundreds at a time when other areas were being devastated. Nowadays, as always, it produces red wine almost exclusively, of generally good but unexceptional quality, with a couple of notable exceptions. The link goes to the web site of the regulatory board of the Utiel-Requena denominación de origen's regulatory board, which is informative but not very exciting and available in English.
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