Learning objectives: Special wines / designations Flashcards

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Ribeira Sacra Summum

Autonomous community?
DO?
Minimum requirements?
tintos?
blancos?

A

Galicia
DO Ribeira Sacra
Tintos: min 85% preferred varieties including 60% Mencía
Blancos: 100% preferred varieties

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Tostado do Ribeiro

When popular?
What is it?
Main markets?

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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.

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Valdeorras Castas Nobles

Autonomous community?
DO?
Minimum requirements?

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Galicia
DO Valdeorras
Minimum 85% preferred varieties

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Txakoli

Autonomous community?
DOs?
Production: before, during, after fermentation?
Minimum requirements?
Experimental techniques?

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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.

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Calatayud Superior

Autonomous community?
DO?
Minimum requirements?

A

Aragón
DO Calatayud

Min 85% Garnacha Tinta
from vines at least 50 years old
max yield 3,500 kg/ha

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Clàssic Penedès

Autonomous community?
DO?
When created and why?
Minimum requirements?

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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)

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Fondillón

Autonomous community?
DO?
When?
Protection in law?
How made?

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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.

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Aloque

Autonomous community?
DO?
Since when?
How made?
Also known as?

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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

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Pajarete

Autonomous community?
DO?
Also known as?
First popular when and where?
How made?

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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.

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Malmsey

Autonomous community?
When popular, and where?
Quote from someone famous?
What is it?

A

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.

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Which special wine is this?

Tintos: min 85% preferred varieties including 60% Mencía
Blancos: 100% preferred varieties

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Ribeira Sacra Summum

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Which special wine is this?

Min 85% Garnacha Tinta
from vines at least 50 years old
max yield 3,500 kg/ha

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Calatayud Superior

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13
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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)

A

Clàssic Penedès

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14
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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.

A

Fondillón

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15
Q

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

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Aloque

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Q

Which special wine is this?

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.

A

Pajarete / Paxarete / Paxarette

17
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Which special wine is this?

Unfortified sweet white wine from Malvasía

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Malmsey