{"id":16252,"date":"2017-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodegasmontecillo.com\/novedades\/the-history-of-wines-from-rioja-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:54:00","slug":"the-history-of-wines-from-rioja-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodegasmontecillo.com\/en\/news\/the-history-of-wines-from-rioja-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of wines from Rioja Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the previous chapter<\/a> we left you with a <\/span>cliff-hanger<\/span><\/i> just as various investors saw the business opportunity that Rioja vineyards presented, encouraging them to found wineries that are now part of the living history of the region. <\/span>
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\nThis injection of liquidity turned wine production into the principal economic motor of the area. <\/strong>
\nThe opening of the Bilbao-Haro railway made the transport of wine to the Basque Country considerably easier<\/strong>, but on top of that, calculations continued to show that France needed 500,000 hl a month to make up for the production deficit caused by the phylloxera plague. Therefore, on the <\/span>6 February<\/span><\/a> 1882<\/span><\/a> a French-Spanish treaty was signed to reduce export costs<\/strong>, lowering the <\/span>duty<\/span><\/a> by <\/span>five <\/span><\/a>francs per hectolitre for liquids of less that 15<\/span>\u00ba<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>
\nThis resulted in an increase of the vineyard area from 34,000 to 52,000 <\/span>hectares<\/span><\/a> during <\/span>the 1880s<\/span><\/a>, achieving the production of 129 million litres on an annual basis. \u00a0In addition the salary of the day workers was increased by 50 per cent. \u00a0<\/span>
\nSeveral factors converged to create a serendipitous situation. \u00a0A virtuous circle. <\/strong>
\nBut Rioja was faced with the consistent challenge that, as sooner or later French vineyards would recover, they would have to have sufficient knowledge and prestige to ensure that this would affect them as little as possible. \u00a0Arrive on the scene to stay; so that once they had found their place they would be another option in the quality market<\/strong>. <\/span>
\nAnd what effectively happened was that the demand from France went down moderately as the vineyards recovered, but the large industrial wines that had formed were maintained, thanks to the total implementation of new winemaking techniques<\/strong> and the new international markets that had already been conquered. <\/span>
\nEven so, every rise has a fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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