History of Wine in Galicia

• What’s the only medieval kingdom to have a cup of wine on its shield?

• Which part of Spain has the most native grape varieties?

• Where did the first wines to be drunk in the Americas come from?

There’s one answer to all these questions: Galicia.

Here, people have been making wine for millennia. Winemaking and wine drinking form a thread running through Galicia’s past, present, and future.

Many of these stories are undiscovered by the English-speaking world up until now, but they very much deserve to be told. If you want to delve deeper into the thousand-year history of wine in Galicia, look no further.