Spanish wine in large formats
Spanish wine in large formats
Ver mensaje de Paul_LutzGood morning-
I was recently searching for some Spanish wines in larger format sizes and was surprised by the scarcity of these in the US market place. So I was wondering if it is an uncommon practice for Spanish wine producers to bottle their wines in large formats - magnums etc.?
Thanks
Not really...
Ver mensaje de Paul_LutzThere’re many wineries which bottle their wines in magnum bottles. Well... now I’m thinking that maybe you mean some other big sizes ;) , jeroboam & etcétera for instance...
Perhaps it’s only an importing issue, I don’t know.
Regards,
Jose
Re: Spanish wine in large formats
Ver mensaje de Paul_LutzThey certainly exist but it’s true you don’t see many at retail abroad.
Re: Spanish wine in large formats
Ver mensaje de RayQ I realize that they do produce large format bottles, but they seem very rare in the retail market, at least in the U.S. Doing a search on Wine Searcher, say for any wine produced by Artadi since 1992 yields only the 1999 Grandes Anadas available in anything larger than a 750 and that is limited to only one retailer. Areas like Bordeaux put a significant percentage of their wines in larger format bottles and I was just wondering if in Spain it is a standard practice that only a very minimal percentage of each vintage is allocated to a larger format.
Paul
Re: Spanish wine in large formats
Ver mensaje de Paul_LutzWell in fact the bottling of this format is quite small especially compared with ¾ bottles. However in Spain is easy to find magnum bottles from almost every cellar… In fact I usually use this format in celebrations ;-)
Cheers and welcome to Verema!
In that case Paco
Ver mensaje de Paco HigónI look forward to you opening your Magnum of 94 Vega Sicilia to celebrate my arrival in Valencia (whenever I get around to it !) ;-)
Re: Spanish wine in large formats
Ver mensaje de Paul_LutzThis is the reason because in the winery where i work for, we produce magnums, 3 litres, 5 litres, 15 litres and 27 litres bottles. These are big formats...! I sell every year one 27 litres bottle to collector from South Africa.