Learning objectives: Special wines / designations Flashcards
Ribeira Sacra Summum
Autonomous community?
DO?
Minimum requirements?
tintos?
blancos?
Galicia
DO Ribeira Sacra
Tintos: min 85% preferred varieties including 60% Mencía
Blancos: 100% preferred varieties
Tostado do Ribeiro
When popular?
What is it?
Main markets?
Middle Ages and into 18C (planting craze followed by market shift to N Portugese wine and abandonment).
Fortified sweet white wine from sun-dried grapes.
Pilgrims on Camino de Santiago; 17-18C England and elsewhere in Europe.
Valdeorras Castas Nobles
Autonomous community?
DO?
Minimum requirements?
Galicia
DO Valdeorras
Minimum 85% preferred varieties
Txakoli
Autonomous community?
DOs?
Production: before, during, after fermentation?
Minimum requirements?
Experimental techniques?
País Vasco.
DO Arabako Txakolina, DO Bizkaiko Txakolina, DO Getariako Txakolina.
Before: destem, macerate on skins.
Fermentation: 2-3 weeks, traditionally in wooden foudres 1,000L, now stainless steel.
After: bottle or a few weeks lees ageing.
Varietal wine: min 85% that variety.
Rosados: min 50% Hondarribi Beltza
Experiments with:
extended lees ageing;
concrete vessels;
barrel-fermentation in oak/acacia;
carbonic maceration;
blending Hondarribi Zuri with Hondarribi Beltza, international varieties;
vinos rosados / tintos / espumosos / dulces.
Calatayud Superior
Autonomous community?
DO?
Minimum requirements?
Aragón
DO Calatayud
Min 85% Garnacha Tinta
from vines at least 50 years old
max yield 3,500 kg/ha
Clàssic Penedès
Autonomous community?
DO?
When created and why?
Minimum requirements?
Cataluña
DO Penedès
2014, distinguish from DO Cava
100% from DO Penedès
Método tradicional
100% organic (first in world)
From tirage to disgorgement in DO registered cellars
Min 15 months on lees (Reserva)
Fondillón
Autonomous community?
DO?
When?
Protection in law?
How made?
Comunidad Valenciana
DO Alicante
Historic: Magellan packed some in 16C.
‘Traditional term’ in EU wine law.
Only in years with long, dry growing season.
Not fortified.
Overripe Monastrell must reach 16% abv naturally with residual sugar.
Min 10 years oxidative ageing in solera of large (some 1,200 L) casks.
Can then age over a century.
Aloque
Autonomous community?
DO?
Since when?
How made?
Also known as?
Castilla-La Mancha
DO Valdepeñas
since late 16C
Cencibel and Airén.
Traditionally: blend of red and white wines aged in tinajas.
Now: co-fermented red and white musts in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks.
aka Clarete
Pajarete
Autonomous community?
DO?
Also known as?
First popular when and where?
How made?
Andalucía
DO Málaga
Paxarete / Paxarette
First popular in 18C England
Fortified sweet wine
Primarily PX and/or Moscatel
Oxidatively aged min 2 years in oak.
45-140 g/L sugar.
Some producers age in solera.
Malmsey
Autonomous community?
When popular, and where?
Quote from someone famous?
What is it?
Las Islas Canarias.
From late 15C, peak in 17C when two-thirds of Tenerife wine was exported to London.
Popular in England, France, Netherlands, Spanish colonies.
Shakespeare: “cheers the senses and perfumes the blood”.
Not fortified. Unfortified sweet white wine from Malvasía.
Which special wine is this?
Tintos: min 85% preferred varieties including 60% Mencía
Blancos: 100% preferred varieties
Ribeira Sacra Summum
Which special wine is this?
Min 85% Garnacha Tinta
from vines at least 50 years old
max yield 3,500 kg/ha
Calatayud Superior
Which special wine is this?
Método tradicional
100% organic (first in world)
From tirage to disgorgement in DO registered cellars
Min 15 months on lees (Reserva)
Clàssic Penedès
Which special wine is this?
Not fortified.
Overripe Monastrell must reach 16% abv naturally with residual sugar.
Min 10 years oxidative ageing in solera of large (some 1,200 L) casks.
Can then age over a century.
Fondillón
Which special wine is this?
Cencibel and Airén.
Traditionally: blend of red and white wines aged in tinajas.
Now: co-fermented red and white musts in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks.
aka Clarete
Aloque