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...Tinadas Airén Pie Franco 2020 Vino de la Tierra Castilla 12.5%Really intense fruit from ungrafted 72-year-old vines, with definite richness but no heaviness....
...“If the Socialists lose important regional bastions like Valencia or Castilla-La Mancha, it would be very difficult to come back from those defeats in the general election,” said Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán...
...Valencia Hamper, Arros QD Arros QD’s luxury Valencian hamper is packed with traditional treats including Antigua Muscatel wine from Castilla la Mancha Horchata; tiger-nut milk; Valencian staple extra-virgin...
...This is partly because Airen is the characteristic variety of the plains of La Mancha, countryside so dry that vines there have to be planted far apart to take advantage of what moisture there is in the...
...y Léon and Castilla-La Mancha)....
...The Chinese group was the only bidder for the vast-but-vacant airport built in the thinly populated Castilla-La Mancha region of southern Spain for a reported €1bn....
...Rafael Torres is the president of Virgen de las Viñas Bodega y Almazara, a co-operative of some 3,000 grape and olive growers in the Castilla-La Mancha region that exports about 75 per cent of its 160m litre...
...In former strongholds such as Madrid, Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha, Mr Rajoy’s party may lose more than a third of its seats in the regional parliament....
...Unless coalition talks produce a complete upset, the centre-right bloc is likely to lose power in Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, Extremadura and several more regions....
...The result has been feverish planting of Tempranillo in southern Spain, particularly on the plains of Castilla-La Mancha....
...A provincial capital of just 75,000 inhabitants, Ciudad Real is located in a thinly populated part of Castilla-La Mancha, halfway between Madrid and Cordoba....
...Castilla-La Mancha, for example, lowered its deficit from 7.9 per cent of GDP in 2011 to 1.5 per cent last year....
...Castilla La Mancha is the fifth of Spain’s heavily indebted regional administrations to request financial assistance from Madrid....
...Savings banks, starting with Caja Castilla la Mancha (CCM) in 2009, tottered and were taken over by the authorities....
...For a youngster living in Cebolla, a small town in the region of Castilla-La Mancha, it was an easy decision to make in the late 1990s: Spain was just climbing the foothills of a decade-long construction...
...Apart from Catalonia, Moody’s downgraded the bonds of Andalucia, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia either one or two notches....
...But Catalonia’s crusade is generating tensions with other regions – Ms Cospedal is president of Castilla La Mancha – that depend on transfers from the central government....
...Cam, originally Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, was nearing financial collapse in July when it became the third Spanish savings bank since 2008, after Caja Castilla La Mancha (CCM) and CajaSur, to be taken...
...Since 2009, other cajas and groups of cajas have failed too. They were seized by the state and sold or simply nationalised – in Castilla La Mancha, Andalucia, Valencia, Galicia and Catalonia....
...“This operation will make us the prime institution in the Canaries, Andalusia, Navarra and Castilla y León,” said an executive of La Caixa. “It will reinforce our leadership in retail banking in Spain....
...But successive interventions to rescue failing cajas – first Caja Castilla La Mancha, then CajaSur and most recently Banco Cam (formerly Caja Mediterráneo) – have weakened the case of the authorities....
...The authorities have since 2009 seized control of three other cajas – Caja Castilla La Mancha (CCM), CajaSur and Banco Cam (formerly Caja Mediterráneo) – and say that the bail-outs have done their job....
...Just take a look at the Ciudad Real Central Airport in Castilla-La Mancha, which received $1.5bn from the local government to construct an airport that is now on the verge of closing down....
...Several cajas have already been seized and forcibly recapitalised by the authorities, including ones in Castilla La Mancha, Andalusia, Galicia and Catalonia....
...“This is what we call good news,” says Mr del Rey, noting that Castilla-La Mancha, in the centre of the country, has more acreage producing wine grapes than the whole of Australia....
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