(TheDailyBeast) - Obama’s choice of Peza do Rei precipitated a rush on the Spanish wine. Wineries in the Ribeira Sacra are thankful for the attention, but politely wary of new investors.

You can buy it online, but in Spain not a single bottle is left for sale. Wine lovers have exhausted the production of Peza do Rei wine.

They say the Romans named Orense so for being the “City of Gold,” but from this city also pour “burgas”, fountains and bodies of warm water that have attracted people from around the world for its healing properties since the times of the Empire.

I walk around the city, exquisite in its bars and restaurants (I wrote this article sitting in my favorite, Tamarindo Casa Cocina y Patio Bar). Everything here points to the wine of the Ribeira Sacra, winegrowing zone at the north of Orense.

Visitors will drink the wine here, in the terraces, but it is in the banks of the Miño and Sil rivers where time will stop to ripen every bunch. Everything has changed in this remote space in Spain, almost touching Portugal, since its most distinguished guest chose a wine for one of his most important receptions: Barack Obama.

“Obama’s wine maker is from Galicia,” the Spanish newspapers said. The chosen wine, Peza do Rei, from Cachin Wineries, was at the center of the toast at the last Gala de la Hispanidad, hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C., to honor the legacy of the Hispanic community in the United States.