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Spanish wines are wines produced in Spain.

Located on the Iberian Peninsula, Spain has over 2.9 million acres (over 1.17 million hectares) planted—making it the most widely planted wine producing nation but it is the third largest producer of wine in the world, the largest being France followed by Italy.

This is due, in part, to the very low yields and wide spacing of the old vines planted on the dry, infertile soil found in many Spanish wine regions.

The country is ninth in worldwide consumptions with Spaniards drinking, on average, 21.6 litres (5.706 US gal) per person a year.

The country has an abundance of native grape varieties, with over 400 varieties planted throughout Spain though 80 percent of the country's wine production is from only 20 grapes—including the reds Tempranillo, Garnacha, and Monastrell; the whites Albariño from Galicia, Palomino, Airen, and Macabeo; and the three cava grapes Parellada, Xarel·lo, and Macabeo.

Andalusia is an autonomous community in southern Spain.

It is the most populated and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country.

The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as "historical nationality".

The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville.

Its capital is the city of Seville (Spanish: Sevilla).

A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a .

Some wine companies own many wineries.

Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, bottling lines, laboratories, and large expanses of tanks known as tank farms.

The oldest winery in the world found to date is a 6,000-year-old winery in the Areni region of Armenia, which is still a wine-making region today.

White wine is a wine whose colour can be straw-yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-gold.

It is produced by the alcoholic fermentation of the non-coloured pulp of grapes, which may have a skin of any colour.

White wine has existed for at least 2500 years.

Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored (black) grape varieties.

The actual color of the wine can range from intense violet, typical of young wines, through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines.

The juice from most purple grapes is greenish-white; the red color comes from anthocyan pigments (also called anthocyanins) present in the skin of the grape; exceptions are the relatively uncommon teinturier varieties, which produce a red colored.

Much of the red-wine production process therefore involves extraction of color and flavor components from the grape skin.