Selle piirkonna veine nimetatakse tänu oma heale hinna ja kvaliteedi suhtele naljaga pooleks ka "vaese mehe riojadeks". (Rioja - Hispaania tuntuim, kuid ka keskmisest kallim veinipiirkond. Rioja on tuntud just kõrge kvaliteedi järgi.) Valdepenas'e eripäraks on kerged veinid (vahest isegi liiga kerged ja iseloomutud), mis reeglina sobivad kõikjale (kodus, piknikul, restoranis) ja läbi selle ka suuremale osale tarbijaskonnast. AS Kiil & Ko esindab Castillo de Nogales, Senorio de los Llanos ja Pata Negra nimelisi veine. Konkurentidest on tuntuim Vina Albali. Jerez e. Xeres Hispaania lõunatipus asetsev veinipiirkond on ehk Rioja kõrval tuntuim Hispaania veinipiirkond, kuna siin valmistatakse tuntud kangestatud veini - herest e. serrit. Peamisteks viinamarjasortideks on valged Palomino ja Pedro Ximenez. Viimatinimetatu lastakse tihti viinamarjapõõsal nö üle küpseda ja pärast seda viinamarju veel kuivatatakse päikese käes lausa
illicit correspondence to such unsafe methods." Perhaps the most important of the MI-8 solutions was the one that largely resulted in the conviction of the only German spy condemned to death in the United States dur- ing World War I. This was Lothar Witzke, alias Pablo Waberski, who was suspected of setting off the Black Tom explosion. He was captured in January, 1918, by an American agent, who found in his baggage in the Central Hotel in Nogales, Mexico, a cipher letter dated January 15. It did not reach MI-8 until spring, and then it kicked about for a few more months while several men there tried and failed to solve it. Finally Manly took it up. This quiet scholar, who never married and whose quiet, simple manner contrasted so sharply with his chief's, was to become one of the world's leading authorities on Chaucer. He and his collaborator, Edith Rickert, labored for 14 years to produce their monumental eight-volume