“We cannot put up barriers on the countryside,” says the agricultural organization, for whom “arguing that grape varieties are the property of this or that vineyard is a step backwards.”
The Asaja organizations of the provinces of Ávila, Segovia and Valladolid support the authorization of eight new grape varieties in the Rueda Designation of Origin. These are Cinderella, Bruñal, Grenache Blanc, Gewüstraminer, Muscat of Alexandria, Muscat de Petit Grain, Riesling and Godello. Precisely, the approval of the Agrarian Technological Institute for the use of the latter has caused discomfort in recent days in León. The Provincial Council considers it “inadmissible” and “an aberration”, while the Leonese PSOE has described it as “an attack on the rights and wine heritage of our territory”.
The aforementioned agricultural organizations maintain that modern viticulture must constantly adapt to market needs, while ensuring that with the inclusion of these eight new varieties, “oenologists will have new tools to produce differentiated and more complex products, which will satisfy the tastes of an increasingly informed and demanding consumer.
“Generating territorial tensions because of unfounded fears of a commercial nature does not benefit the entire population of Castile-Leon. “You cannot put doors on the countryside and pretend that the grape varieties are the property of this or that wine region is regressing,” Asaja said in a statement, while indicating that the adaptation of grape varieties to new soils and climates is lagging behind. contributing to producing wines full of nuances.
UPL takes him to the Cortes
These arguments do not seem to convince Leon. Yesterday, it was the Union of the Leonese People that spoke out. The Leonese side filed a series of questions before the autonomous courts in which it expressed its rejection of the decision taken by the Council to authorize the use of the Godello grape variety in the Rueda Designation of Origin; a fact that they describe as a “provocation” that only demonstrates that the Council “continues to go against the interests of the people of León and Berciano.” They recall that this grape variety is “native to the Leonese region of Bierzo and the Galician regions of Valdeorras, Ribeira Sacra and Monterrey” and that the wines produced there have been enjoying growing and evident success in recent years.
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