Duero River Valley Flashcards

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who was Alejandro Fernandez

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Ribeiro del Deuro Village of Pesquera de Duero Single variety Tempranillo Start of quality improvements and DO status

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``` Designation- Time in Barrel - Time before release Joven - no cask aging required Crianza- 12/12 - 24/12 Reserva - 12/12 - 36/12 Gran Reserva 24/12 - 60/12 ```

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``` 1980 - oldest DO in CyL Blanco 99%, Rosado Soils - gravel and stone Continental 430mm, late frosts 800m 14,753ha White- Verdejo History of Rancio fortified wines Replanted with Palomino Then Marques de Riscal= > Verdejo En vaso (historic) now Espaldera Small amount of red and rosado Country's largest producer of vino blanco Vino espumoso- trad method, 9/12 lees ``` NEW CLASSIFICATION NOT TESTABLE

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DO Rueda historic wine style Wines from Tierra de Medina Protected by Queen Isabella deliberately maderizing the wine by exposing it to oxygen and/or heat. The wine may be stored in glass bonbonnes left out of doors and subjected to the changing temperatures of night and day. The word rancio has the same root as ‘rancid’ and the wines which result have an additional and powerful smell reminiscent of overripe fruit, nuts, and melted, or even rancid, butter.

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Rueda = >50% Verdejo Rueda Verdejo => 85% Verdejo Rueda Sauvignon => 85% Sauv Bl Rueda Espumoso => 50% Verdejo (seco/semi-seco) or 85% Verdejo (W/Bhat arrut Nature) Rueda Dorado => Oxidatively aged with approved varieities

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``` 1987 Tinto 93%, Blanco 4%, Rosado 3% Soils - sand and clay Continental 400mm - spring frosts, low rain for region 825m 5,555ha White - Malvasia, Dona Blanca, Verdejo Red - Tinta de Toro (Temp) >75% Some Toro rosado Wines taken by Columbus Some pre-phylloxera vines French oak Blended with Garnacha ```

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``` Nature reserve SE Salamancar 199,140ha Duero and Taja rivers UNESCO status Unique flora/fauna ```

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Rosado Slow easy ferment Slight sparkling Tierra de Leon

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Continental

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Verdejo and Sauvignon Blanc

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Abillo Mayor

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Clarete, Direct press, Saignee... Madreo?

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Garnacha Tinta

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False - 3rd largest

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No more than 5% between the 2

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Vino rosado

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Montes de Leon

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Tinto del Pais, Tinto de Toro, Tinto Fino

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An oxidatively aged wine (from any authorised white grape)

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Sistema Iberico

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Alejandro Fernandez

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Castilla y Leon

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Rueda In the 15th century, the region's wines began to gain popularity under the name 'Tierra de Medina wines'. In 1494 the first ordinances aimed at protecting the vineyard in the Rueda area were issued. ... As wine was easy to transport, it became a product of exchange used in important commercial transactions.

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sandy and dry

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Tempranillo

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Tino Fino, Tinto del Pais, Tinta del Toro

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Bierzo, increasingly fashionable small do region in north west Spain (see map under spain) which administratively forms part of castilla y león. However, the River Sil, which bisects it, is a tributary of the Miño (Minho in Portugal) and the wines have more in common with those of galicia than those of the douro 140 km/88 miles to the south. Sheltered from the climatic excesses of the Atlantic and the central plateau, Bierzo shows promise as a wine region. The mencía grape is capable of producing balanced, fruity red wines in well-drained soils on the slate and granite of this part of Spain. In the late 1990s, a group of small, mostly young growers reproduced in Bierzo the same ‘miracle’ which had happened in Priorat one decade earlier—they resurrected a moribund wine region. One of the protagonists, Álvaro Palacios, was indeed one of the Priorat pioneers as well. With his nephew Ricardo Pérez Palacios, he reclaimed small, old vineyards on slate slopes and produced wines with no resemblance to the light quaffable reds traditionally produced from fertile valley vineyards. Other top names are Paixar, Pittacum, Dominio de Tares, Estefanía, Luna Beberide, Mengoba, Raúl Pérez, Peique, Gancedo, Losada, Casar de Burbia, and Castro Ventosa.

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Cigales — small wine zone in northern Spain, north of Valladolid in castilla y león (see map under spain), higher and cooler than toro, with impressive average vine age. This do has traditionally produced dry rosé wines made from Tinto del Pais (tempranillo) and some garnacha grapes, but an increasing number of dry reds show real potential and, so far, value.

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DO Cigales

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Joven= Pink Crianza=Maroon Reserva=Brown Gran Reserva= Gold

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Palomino Fino

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Rueda, historic Spanish white wine zone named after the unprepossessing town which straddles the main road from Madrid to León in castilla y león (see map under spain). In the Middle Ages, vineyards flourished on this bleak Castilian plateau and cellars were hollowed out of the limestone under the town, but after phylloxera ravaged the zone, Rueda went into rapid decline. The high-yielding palomino grape was used for replanting, a move that in this case was justified since the main local styles were fortified wines in the image of sherry. For much of the 20th century, the local verdejo grape was Rueda's sleeping beauty. It was awoken in the 1970s, when Bodegas Marqués de Riscal of rioja recognized the area's potential for dry white wine and sold a fresh Rueda white alongside its Rioja reds. Rueda was awarded do status in 1980 and the local Consejo Regulador succeeded in relaunching the native variety of which there were nearly three times as much as of Palomino in the mid 2000s, a radical reversal of the previous situation. Fortified wines are hardly made today and modern Rueda is a light, fruity, dry white wine. It may be made from a blend of Viura (macabeo) and Verdejo, the latter accounting for at least 50% of the blend, or it may be a sauvignon blanc varietal. Rueda Superior must contain at least 85% Verdejo and, as more farmers convert their vineyards, there are ever more varietal wines. Sauvignon Blanc was introduced by Marqués de Riscal in the early 1980s. Some fine, elegant wines have resulted, including one from one of the lurton family of Bordeaux. tempranillo produces some typically firm red wine in the zone. In 2002, red wines were admitted in the Rueda DO but are rarely seen.

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Toro, revolutionized Spanish red wine zone in castilla y león (see map under spain) whose wines were famous within Spain in medieval times. This wild and remote zone spans the Duero valley east of Zamora. It was accorded do status in 1987. At an elevation of between 600 and 750 m/2,000–2,800 ft, growing conditions are severe. The dry, stony soils can support cereals or vines. The region’s principal grape variety, Tinta de Toro, is a local variant of Rioja’s tempranillo which has adapted to the climatic extremes of this part of Spain. The grapes need careful handling. Left to their own devices, they will easily ripen to a potential alcohol level of 16%. Local regulations permit a maximum alcoholic strength of 15% but the best wines usually have a strength of around 13.5. A small number of producers have fostered a move away from the heavy, bulk reds of recent times, a move which gained notable momentum when some of the greatest names in Ribera del Duero, Rioja, and even Bordeaux were awakened to the region’s potential and launched their own estates, particularly Vega Sicilia’s Pintia, Mauro’s San Román, Sierra Cantabria’s Numanthia-Termes (subsequently acquired by lvmh), Michel Rolland’s Campo Elíseo, Telmo Rodríguez’s Pago La Jara, Jacques Lurton’s El Albar, in addition to the home-grown Bienvenida Sitio del Palo, Paydos, and Quinta Quietud. By 2010, Toro’s 5,700 ha/14,000 acres of vineyard supplied nearly 50 bodegas.

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Ribera del Duero, important wine zone in castilla y león in north-central Spain that challenged rioja as the leading red wine-producing region in Iberia towards the end of the 20th century when it grew substantially. By 2012 it had a total of 21,500 ha/51,500 acres of vineyard, a third as much as Rioja. Ribera del Duero spans the upper valley of the River Duero (known as douro in Portugal), starting some 30 km/18 miles east of the city of Valladolid (see map under spain). Although Bodegas vega sicilia on the western margin of the denomination has been producing one of Spain's finest wines since the mid 19th century, the region was awarded do status only in 1982. Since then more than 200 private estates have emerged. At first sight, the Duero valley is not the most congenial place to grow grapes. At between 700 and 850 m/2,800 ft above sea level, the growing season is relatively short. frost, commonplace in winter, continues to be a threat well into the spring. Temperatures, which can reach nearly 40 °C/104 °F in the middle of a July day, fall sharply at night—a phenomenon associated with wine quality elsewhere (see temperature variability). The potential was recognized by Alejandro Fernández, who played a key role in the considerable development of the region in the 1980s. Pesquera, his wine vinified from grapes growing around the village of Pesquera del Duero a short distance upstream from Vega Sicilia, was released in the early 1980s to international acclaim. Other growers (many of whom had previously sold their grapes to the co-operatives) were thereby encouraged to make and market their own wines, soon challenging Rioja's traditional hegemony inside Spain. In the 1990s, consumption of top-quality Ribera wines soared within Spain, causing deepening concern in Rioja. Several Ribera producers attained quality levels not much below those of Vega Sicilia and Pesquera. The leading challengers included Dominio de Pingus, Alión, Pérez Pascuas, Pago de los Capellanes, Emilio Moro, Aalto, Hermanos Sastre, Alonso del Yerro, Goyo García Viadero, Hacienda Monasterio, and Cillar de Silos. Several of these growers are in the east of the region, near Aranda de Duero, where a tradition of cheap rosés had previously inhibited production of top-quality reds. The region's principal vine variety, the Tinto Fino (also called Tinta del Pais), is a local variant of Rioja's tempranillo. It seems to have adapted to the Duero's climatic extremes and produces deep-coloured, occasionally astringent, firm-flavoured red wines without the support of any other grape variety. White wine made from albillo has been entitled to the DO since 2020 but is still occasionally blended into the intense red wine to lighten the load and add glycerine content. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Malbec, introduced by Vega Sicilia 130 years ago, are now allowed throughout the denomination. Garnacha is used in the production of rosé.

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Tempranillo

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Tinto Fino, Tinto Toro, Tinto del Pais

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Palomino Fino

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Vega Sicilia

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Rueda and Toro

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``` Bierzo=Red Ribeiro del Duero=Red Rueda=White, Cigales=Rosado Toro=Red ```

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