Four denominations — Rioja, Cava, Rueda and Ribera del Duero — carry 70% of Spain's mapped 2021 grape harvest
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16 Spanish wine denominations with verified 2021 harvested-grape quantities, totalling about 1.36 million tonnes, each placed at an approximate label point on the Iberian Peninsula. Bubble area and colour scale with tonnes harvested.
Partial map, not a choropleth. This shows only the wine denominations with verified point-level 2021 figures; denomination areas can overlap and cross provincial boundaries, and each dot is an approximate label location, not a polygon. Portugal is not plotted: the verified search yielded no comparable point-level 2021 quantities — Portugal's comparable data exists at NUTS-2 in a downloadable Zenodo workbook, but those rows could not be retrieved here.
Bubble area ∝ tonnes of grapes harvested, 2021 · darker = larger harvest · hover or tap a bubble for detail
Rioja alone harvested 413,800 tonnes — more than the twelve smallest mapped denominations combined.
foodswinesfromspain.comCava's 300,000 tonnes make the sparkling-wine denomination the second-largest mapped figure, spread around Penedès in Catalonia.
foodswinesfromspain.comThe Duero valley cluster — Rueda 124,500, Ribera del Duero 109,000 and Toro 23,400 tonnes — sits within about 150 km of river.
foodswinesfromspain.comThe smallest verified point is island denomination Binissalem on Mallorca at 1,200 tonnes — 345 times smaller than Rioja.
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All 16 mapped denominations, ranked
| # | Denomination | 2021 harvest (tonnes) | Share of mapped total | Source |
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Method: 16 rows, one per Spanish wine denomination with a verified 2021 harvested-grape quantity in tonnes, mapped at approximate label coordinates (not boundaries). Figures are reported harvest volumes from the denominations' own 2021 vintage reports as compiled by Foods & Wines from Spain (January 2022). Denominations without point-level verified 2021 figures — and all of Portugal, whose comparable data sits at NUTS-2 in a Zenodo workbook that could not be retrieved — are omitted. Mapped total ≈ 1,358,600 tonnes.