A plague wiped out the Bordeaux vineyards in the 1860s. The French crossed the Pyrenees, barrels in hand — and changed Spanish wine forever.
The two regions have been linked ever since. Same oak philosophy. Same négociant structure. Same obsession with age-worthy reds.
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