Thus, the main wine-growing areas of Spain have formally constituted Wine Routes, created with their own quality model: Alicante, Arlanza, Arribes, Bullas, Calatayud, Campo de Cariñena, Cigales, El Bierzo, Garnacha-Campo de Borja , Gran Canaria, Jumilla, La Mancha, La Manchuela, Lleida-Costers del Segre, Madrid, Marco de Jerez, Montilla-Moriles, Navarra, Penedès, Rías Baixas, Ribera de Duero, Ribera del Guadiana, Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Alta, Rioja Oriental, Ronda and Málaga, Rueda, Sierra de Francia, Somontano, Toro, Utiel-Requena, Valdepeñas and Yecla.
Gran Canaria Wine Route
The Gran Canaria Wine Route is a wine tourism proposal that covers the entire territory of the island of Gran Canaria, which coincides with the area of protection and production of the Denomination of Origin Gran Canaria. It is the only wine route on these islands that is currently part of the Wine Routes of Spain, and the only one outside the peninsula.
The creation of this new Route responds to the effort on the part of the island of Gran Canaria to create a quality product that allows us to know the history and the wine-growing singularities of this territory and serves as a new and powerful focus of attraction within the tourist offer, This shows the importance of wine tourism even in established destinations, an activity that has been revealed as one of the most successful initiatives for the development of the rural world.
In this way, and after the audit process in which the quality standards set out in the Spanish Wine Routes Product Manual are examined, this new route becomes part of a benchmark wine tourism brand in our country —the club is made up of 33 Routes, more than 750 municipalities, 2,200 companies of which almost 700 are wineries, and more than 3 million annual visitors—, supported by organizations such as the Secretary of State for Tourism, TURESPAÑA and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food.
Qualification
Gran Canaria, the new Wine Route of Spain
Description
After the usual process of audits, the Spanish Association of Wine Cities (ACEVIN) has approved the incorporation of Gran Canaria to the Wine Routes of Spain, a new adhesion to this product club, which already has thirty-three wine tourism destinations throughout the entire country.
Author
Gastronomy Journal