Talk:Spanish wine regions

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[edit] Update

I updated this page slightly. The most important changes were:

• added one Denomincaciones de Origen (DO), (Uclés in Castile La Mancha)
• added two Denomincaciones de Origen de Pago (DO de Pago), (also in castile La Mancha), and
• deleted three DO's from the Canary islands, which don't seem to exist

I got this info from the web page of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, here:

[[1]] which was updated on 22nd May 2007.

I also tweaked the format a bit (alphabetical order, brackets round multi-provincial DOs)

--BodegasAmbite 13:09, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another Update

I moved Arribes into the DO column of the table. The Arribes region was upgraded in July 2007 by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture to DO status. I'll write up a Start article as soon as I can. :) --BodegasAmbite 10:28, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Well-deserved, too :) I've unbolded the red link and added (DO), which is a thankless task required for a good many of these; a lot of DOs link to geographical regions. There's often a DO article but it's not always disambiguated at the geog page... how deep do we go here...
Oh and I finally found a good link to the upgrade story:
http://www.gondoladigital.com/noticia.php?ID_NOTICIA=238
- not even the beurocrats have recognised the change yet. MAPA lists it as a DO but fails to mention that's it was ever thus. Ho hum, you gotta love the place. --mikaul^talk 17:51, 12 November 2007 (UTC)