Castilla Y Leon/Duero River Valley

Question 1

What plateau is Castilla Y Leon on?

Answer 1

Meseta plateau

Question 2

Sub DOs of Castilla y Leon

Answer 2

Bierzo
Rueda
Ribera del Duero
Toro
Arlanza
Arribes
Cigales
Tierra de Leon
Tierra del Vino de Zamora

Question 3

Where is Bierzo located?

Answer 3

Castilla y Leon
on the border of Gallicia

Question 4

What is the most important winery in Bierzo?

Answer 4

Palacios, started by Raul Perez

Question 5

what river runs through Bierzo?

Answer 5

Sil river

Question 6

What is the big red grape of Bierzo

Answer 6

Mencia

Question 7

Grapes of Rueda

Answer 7

wines must be 50% Verdejo or Sav Blanc

Palomino, Viura, Chardonnay, Viogner are also authorized

Question 8

When was red wine authorized in Rudea and what grape?

Answer 8

2001 and Tempranillo

Question 9

What is the climate like in Rudea

Answer 9

extreme continental

Question 10

Is irrigation allowed in Rudea?

Answer 10

Yes, it has to be due to the climate

Question 11

What is the soil like in Rudea?

Answer 11

limestone and gravelly

Question 12

What river runs through Rudea

Answer 12

Duero with its many tibutaries

Question 13

Who founded Vega Sicilia?

Answer 13

Don Eloy Lecanda y Chaves in 1864

Question 14

What did Don Eloy Lecanda y Chaves bring to the region for the first time?

Answer 14

Traditional Bordeaux Grapes along with Pinot

Question 15

Where is Vega Sicilia?

Answer 15

Ribero del Duro`

Question 16

What did Alejandro Fernandez do in 1972?

Answer 16

Started Tinto Pesquera winery and helped realign the focus of the region to Tempranillo

Question 17

When was Ribera del Duero DOd?

Answer 17

1982

Question 18

What is the difference in soil from the west to east of Ribera?

Answer 18

west has more clay
east has more sand and silt

Both have limestone

Question 19

What are the dinural shifts like in RdD?

Answer 19

extreme-

Question 20

What region has the most extreme climate in spain?

Answer 20

Ribera del Duero

Question 21

What are the local names for Tempranillo in Ribera del Duero?

Answer 21

Tinto Fino
Tintal del Pais

Question 22

What is the ecempagment of red wine from Ribera del Duero?

Answer 22

Must be 75% Tempranillo

Question 23

What is the main white grape of Ribera del Duero?

Answer 23

Albillo Mayor

Question 24

What are the 4 provinces in Ribera del Duero from east to west?

Answer 24

Soria
Segovia
Burgos
Valladolid

Question 25

Aging requirements for Ribera del Duero Crianza

Answer 25

2 years total, 1 in oak

Question 26

Aging requriements for Ribera del Duero Reserva?

Answer 26

3 years total, 1 in oak

Question 27

Aging requriements for Ribera del Duero Gran Reserva?

Answer 27

5 years total, 2 in oak

Question 28

What is Leon DO known for producing?

Answer 28

Red wines from Prieto Picudo

Question 29

Where can you find Galet rocks in Duero River valley?

Answer 29

Cigales DO

Question 30

What are the white grapes of Arlanza DO

Answer 30

Albillo Mayor and Macabeo

Question 31

Who makes domaine Pingus

Answer 31

Peter Sisseck

Question 32

Where can you find Numanthia

Answer 32

Toro in Zamorra province

Question 33

When was Arlanza DOd

Answer 33

2007

Question 34

What is Tempranillo called in Toro

Answer 34

Tinta del Toro

Question 35

Main town of Ribera del Duero

Answer 35

Aranda de Duero

Question 36

Gran vino de Rueda vines must be how old?

Answer 36

30 years

Question 37

What are lagares and where can you find them?

Answer 37

Large troughs for foot stomping in Porto serve as primary fermentation vessels

Question 38

How many soil types in Ribera del Duero

Answer 38

32

Question 39

Mountains that seperate Galicia and Castilla y leon

Answer 39

Sierra de los Anceres

Question 40

What is Rudea Dorado

Answer 40

Oxidative white wine popular before the 1970s made from Palomino

Question 41

What winery revitilized Sav Blanc in Rueda

Answer 41

Marques de Riscal

Question 42

What is unique about Toros soil?

Answer 42

Very sandy, 60% of vines are unaffected by Phylloxera

Question 43

Who makes Aalto and where is it located?

Answer 43

Mariano Garcia (ex vega sicilia) Ribera del Duero

Question 44

What way does the Duero river flow?

Answer 44

West

Question 45

Spains largest Autonomia

Answer 45

Castilla Y Leon