For the 2024 harvest, the governing council of DOC Rioja has officially endorsed harvest yields for red grape varieties that are at 90% of what is allowed while white varieties remain the same. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise given that they started to enact changes last year to deal with a surplus of wine in the region which has become a huge problem due to changing tastes and other issues. The surplus has been chipped away at in theory via distilling it, but it was rumored to be in the neighborhood of 100-150 million liters of unsold wine that was sitting in tanks. There were some who stated that it was even more, as it dates back to 2018, but none of this is verifiable given that there are no official figures of "unsold" wine, just that which has been produced annually. Keeping the 90% reduction in…
For the 2024 harvest, the governing council of DOC Rioja has officially endorsed harvest yields for red grape varieties that are at 90% of what is allowed while white varieties remain the same. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise given that they started to enact changes last year to deal with a surplus of wine in the region which has become a huge problem due to changing tastes and other issues. The surplus has been chipped away at in theory via distilling it, but it was rumored to be in the neighborhood of 100-150 million liters of unsold wine that was sitting in tanks. There were some who stated that it was even more, as it dates back to 2018, but none of this is verifiable given that there are no official figures of "unsold" wine, just that which has been produced annually. Keeping the 90% reduction in…