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The national soccer team coach, Vicente del Bosque, will be sworn in on Friday the new President of Honor of the Denomination of Origin

The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerda, today with President of the Council of the Designation of Origin Jumilla, Pedro Lencina, and the head of the Organizing Committee, Enrique Calduch, the eighteenth Quality Wine Competition, which is welcomes on 22 and March 23 in the township.

Cerda said the "impartiality and seriousness" of the contest, held in a blind tasting, and the "robustness" of a contest this year, with 18 editions, "are the legal age," stressed the organizers.

Responsible for Agriculture of the regional government said that in wines jumillanos "bonus a careful selection of grapes and a perfect planning and development process," which is made from the Monastrell grape quality, the most widespread in the region .

The Jumilla is "one of the oldest wine regions in Spain," which also includes part of the territory of Albacete.

The Control Board currently has 2,780 growers, 44 wineries and a total of 27,000 hectares, annually producing 22 million liters of wine qualified, of which half is exported.

The main consumer markets of wine producing area of ​​this are Germany and the United Kingdom within the European Union countries and the United States and Japan in third countries.

Vicente del Bosque, new President of Honor of DO Jumilla

The awards ceremony will take place at the gala dinner to be held in Jumilla on Friday, March 23, which appointed the new President of Honor of the Denomination of Origin, the national soccer team coach, Vicente del Bosque said on President of the Control Board.

The jury of the Contest XVIII Quality Wines of Jumilla is composed of 16 professional tasters, most of them critical of the major national media and winemakers, sommeliers and experts from the national administrations, Murcian and Castilian-La Mancha.

The jury assessed more than one hundred samples, tastings open to the public, to be held in three sessions on 22 and 23 in the Plenary Hall of the City Council Jumillano.

Source: CARM