Martin Codax and Gallo team up

News in last Sunday's La Vanguardia (and also in Avenue Vine) of the recent exclusive US distribution deal between Martin Codax and E&J Gallo. This deal is likely to triple the winery's total sales and make it the largest single supplier of Spanish wines to the US market. Martin Codax is well known in Spain for its quality albariño white wines produced in the Rias Baixas region of northwest Spain, but also has a winery in La Rioja.

Sales forecasts from the winery anticipate 8 million bottles of their albariño going to the US. To give some perspective, this year total production from all of Rias Baixas was roughly 20 million bottles, so the US, already the region's largest overseas market (expanding at a rate of of 35% per year) could soon become the destination for more than 40% of production!