Vinopolis Newsletter 4-9-25
In This Newsletter:
Arrivals
Spanish history in a bottle
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Beat the tariffs with Oregon and California wines!
Arrivals
Spanish history in a bottle
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Beat the tariffs with Oregon and California wines!
Special Arrivals
Spain
Lopez Heredia: Spanish history in a bottle!
The French vineyards? Destroyed by bugs. Spain? Untouched potential.
Rafael’s choice was clear.
Rafael’s choice was clear.
The story of Lopez Heredia starts with a bug. Actually millions of little parasites called “Grape Phylloxera” that ate about 60% of France’s grape vines in the late nineteenth century. Now in survival mode, French estates were presented with two options: ruin or innovation. Many sold or abandoned their land, while others set their eyes on viticultural regions still untouched by the Phylloxera.
It was this opportunity that savvy businessmen like Lopez Heredia’s founder, Rafael López de Heredia y Landet, took advantage of: buying land in Spain to grow grapes, producing and selling wines for French Vignerons, and most importantly, learning all about what it was that made the wines of Bordeaux the most sought after wines on the planet.
… Read the rest It was this opportunity that savvy businessmen like Lopez Heredia’s founder, Rafael López de Heredia y Landet, took advantage of: buying land in Spain to grow grapes, producing and selling wines for French Vignerons, and most importantly, learning all about what it was that made the wines of Bordeaux the most sought after wines on the planet.
