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

joan c martin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:41:50 -0000

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

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

ryan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:03:14 -0000

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

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

sandy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:02:54 -0000

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!

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

ryan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:55:12 -0000

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.

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

Milton Fontes — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:36:56 -0000

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?

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

Dylan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:30:38 -0000

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.

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

ryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:04:20 -0000

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.

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

RichardA — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:00:29 -0000

Thanks Gabriella!

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

Gabriella Opaz — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:50:41 -0000

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.

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

trevor — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:36:37 -0000

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.

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

trevor — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:36:37 -0000

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

trevor — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:36:37 -0000

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

trevor — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:36:37 -0000

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

RichardA — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:38:36 -0000

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?