Under-seasoned wood

";Two plants are crucial to modern wine production: the vine, of course, and the oak tree."; With these words starts the last article from Jancis in her website(http://www.jancisrobinson.com/winenews/2004/winenews0403.html)

An interesting article, certainly. I found this paragraph particularly interesting:

";Cheaper barrels made from under-seasoned wood that has been dried fast in a kiln rather than slowly in the open air are, I am convinced, responsible for the huge proportion of wines on the market today that seem to have had the fruit knocked out of them by harsh, green-flavoured oak. I often wonder whether French coopers, masters of the oak world, are really as careful about the oak they supply to winemakers in, say, farflung regions of Chile and South Africa, as they are with their French customers.";

Do you think this ";farflung regions"; could include Spain? I’m afraid the answer is yes...