Cepa Lebrel... What does this mean ?
Mi vino español favorito se llama 'Cepa Lebrel'... Se vende en una tienda aquí que se llama 'Lidl' (una compañía alemana que se especializa en compras europeas muy baratas, y quizás mi mujer y yo bebemos demasiado !!). Lo bebe hace muchos años, pero solo a hora quiero saber lo que su nombre quiere decir y leo 'Stump Greyhound'. Es extraño. ¿ Tiene un significado en español que no me parace inmediatamente ?
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If you look on the definition page for cepa on here, you'll see that in the #2 example, in regards to wine cepa (de vino), it also means "variety"... as in "type of" so Cepa Lebrel means "Greyhound Variety". And I'm gonna go out on a limb here and presume that it's just a name. Alcohol brands and "types" love their strange names and I think it's just that. A name.
In America we have a wine brand named "yellow tail" ... it means nothing really. Just a name. There's a beer named "dogfish head" and another called "Santas butt" and another called "Seriously Bad Elf"... what? What do they mean? Answer: Nothing. NOthing at all other than face value. They're just catchy names to make the consumer remember the name is all.
I am not a native speaker so for all I know someone could come in and give us some historical significance to the name or some colloquial meaning to "Greyhound Variety", but my vote(guess) is with "it's just a catchy name" 
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La cepa is the part of a tree or vine that is just between the trunk and the roots.
Also in wine making there is an expression "a cepa revuelta" that refers to vines in an old vineyard that no longer grow in a straight line as they were originally planted. I would guess that this is where that wine´s name originates.
But I agree with Hucklebeary about the nonsense names given to wines. A Greyhound dog certainly has nothing to with the squeezing of the grape - unless it´s his urine that gives it a specific flavor 
I was also going to say it is variety/stock/vine.
Obviously in the UK we have the advantage of stocking wines from all over the world. I enjoy a number of Spanish and Latin American varieties.
I remember a lovely afternoon in a bar near the cathedral in Santiago de Compestela trying a number of delicious Galician wines. If you haven't been to that part of Spain yet, add it to your list - a lot of the time it is rainy and they do play gaitas [bagpipes] so it may seem like home!
I regularly listen to the video on El Viajero [a blog on El Pais] I have learned a lot of wine terms and I find the speaker reasonably easy to understand, though I have been learning Spanish longer than you. In addition to the short video there is always a link to the vineyard for more information. Coincidentally the latest one I listened to uses the word 'cepa'
