Here's why everyone's drinking Spanish wines

Have you been drinking Spanish wine recently? If so you are not alone, sales of Spanish wine continue to grow and the reason is fairly simple — quality versus price, writes Leslie Williams. 

A number of years ago the Spanish wine section seemed a rather boring place to explore as all the available wines here seemed to be made with Tempranillo and Garnacha with hardly any interesting white wines of note.

Well all that changed just over a decade ago when regional Spain began to flex its muscles and we were introduced to all manner of new flavours. Tempranillo and Garnacha are still the dominant grapes but as well as Rioja and Pénédes (eg, Torres) we now have great value versions coming from old vines in every corner of the country each of which has its own character.