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Exciting Announcement - The DeLong Iberian Wine Map - with help from Catavino

Started by Ryan Opaz · 9 months ago

Since day one, I’ve wanted a map of the wine regions of Spain and Portugal. Seems like a simple request, and if I couldn’t have one of Iberia, at least you would think that there would be one of Spain and another of Portugal. You would think. You would also be ... Continue reading »

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  • RichardA

    10 months ago

    The wine map looks very cool, especially as it includes both Portugal and Spain, and I may soon buy one. Ryan: What, if any, criticisms, do you have with the map? What is not on the map that should be?
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  • trevor

    10 months ago

    The Wines from Spain map, updated July 2008, is available online in PDF. <a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/controller..." target="_blank"><a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/c...It doesn't contain the same level of geographic detail, but it is free.
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  • trevor

    10 months ago

    The Wines from Spain map, updated July 2008, is available online in PDF. <a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/controller..." target="_blank"><a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/c...It doesn't contain the same level of geographic detail, but it is free.
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  • trevor

    10 months ago

    The Wines from Spain map, updated July 2008, is available online in PDF. <a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/controller..." target="_blank"><a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/c...It doesn't contain the same level of geographic detail, but it is free.
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  • trevor

    10 months ago

    The Wines from Spain map, updated July 2008, is available online in PDF. <a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/controller..." target="_blank"><a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/c...It doesn't contain the same level of geographic detail, but it is free.
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  • Gabriella Opaz

    10 months ago

    Richard, having spent a considerable amount of time pouring over the map to make sure every detail was edited correctly, to the best of our ability, I would be hard pressed to find something that doesn't appeal me. It is easy to read, shows all the major roads and highways that travel through wine country, contains an easy to read legend. and generally, is a very useful and attractive tool. If I had one complaint, it would be that no one has made a laminated folded map that I can take with me in the car. Having this on my wall is lovely, but to have it while driving through regions would be a great learning tool to know where boundaries end, where subregions are located and just a good sense of how the land affects our understanding of each region.
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  • RichardA

    10 months ago

    Thanks Gabriella!
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  • ryan

    10 months ago

    I think it's pretty stacked with info. If anything I would want a seperate legend/guide book to go with it. As a wall map though I would say it has all that I want to see.
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  • Dylan

    10 months ago

    Gabriella and Ryan, you should definitely consider labeling areas of the map for new posts about some of the visits you do. I think that would be a really fun addition to each post; to actually see on a map the areas you've been talking. Also--the map is a given in the post, great job, but no one has mentioned it so I feel obliged; that wine varietal table blows my mind. It's like a periodic table of wine grapes, I just think it's fantastic and i've never really seen anything like it before.
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  • Milton Fontes

    10 months ago

    I would be interested in a Portuguese version. Did you found enough interest to do it? An English version it’s ok but it would make more sense to me to hang a Portuguese version on my wall.  How can I buy a map from Catavino?
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  • ryan

    10 months ago

    Hope I can find some more people to make it worth while. If I could find a shop in Portugal or group of shops it would make it possible for sure.
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  • sandy

    10 months ago

    Ryan/Gabriella, can we buy the map in Europe? De Long charges $29.99 to ship internationally, and Malta is not even on the list of countries they ship to!
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  • ryan

    10 months ago

    We're working on getting some into Spain that we can then distribute. Hang in there, we'll make an announcement when we have more details
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  • joan c martin

    9 months ago

    Es un buen mapa, incluye el concepto de orografia (las sierras y cadenas montañosas), factor fundamental en la viticultura y de gran influencia en el estilo de vinos de cada area vinicola. Hasta ahora no se habia incluido esta realidad en los mapas de las do españolas. Puede ser que pensaban que la peninsula era una mesa de billar. Quiza porque la meseta es llana, pero el resto de la peninsula esat llena de estribaciones y cordillleras en las que se hacen grandes crus. Los montes de malaga, la serra prelitoral catalana, la montaña alicantina, benissalem al sur de la serra de tramuntana en mallorca, los valles del bierzo. Una buena y nueva idea para un buen mapa que recoge la creacion de las ultimas do en la peninsula iberica una ventena en 1982 mas de 60 en 2008-
    Joan C. Martin
    Enologo y escritor
    Valencia
    joan@joancmartin.com
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