Levant Flashcards
Subzones of Vinos de Madrid DO
Arganda
Navalcarnero
San Martin de Valdeiglesias
El Molar
Styles of Vinos de Madrid DO
Blanco Rosado Tinto Espumoso (blanco/rosado) Sobremadre (blanco/tinto)
What is sobremadre?
traditional wines produced by long maceration (skin contact up to 180 days)
What is Garnacha called in Madrid?
Negra de Madrid
What are the main grapes of Vinos de Madrid DO?
Blanco: Airen, Malvar
Tinto: Tempranillo (Tinta Madrid), Garnacha, internationals
What regions contain parts of the Gredos?
Vinos de Madrid DO
Mentrida DO
Vinos de la Tierra de Castilla y Leon
What are the grapes of the Gredos?
Blanco: Albillo Real, Garnacha Blanca
Tinto: Garnacha
What is the DO of Extramadura?
Ribera del Guadiana DO
How many subregions of Ribera del Guadiana DO? Name them.
6 Tierra de Barros (80% of the appellation) Ribera Alta Ribera Baja Montanchez Matanegra Canamero
What is the only Cava producer in southwestern Spain?
Bodegas Inviosa in Tierra de Barros, in the Ribera del Guadiana DO
What are the DOs of Valencia?
Valencia Do
Alicante DO
Utiel-Requena DO
What is the specialty of Alicante DO?
Fondillon- a solera style dessert wine. Unfortified. Overripe Monastrell. Aged for min 10 years
What are the subregions of Valencia DO?
Alto Turia (Blanco Seco only)
Clariano
Valentino
Moscatel de Valencia (Dulce and Licor only)
How in Alicante DO Vino Rancio aged?
min 2 years in wood or glass, stored in the sun
What are the grapes of Utiel-Requena DO “Surperior”
Blanco: Macabeo and/or Chardonnay
Rosado: 100% Bobla
Tinto: Tempranillo and/or Garnacha
What are nouveau wines called in Utiel-Requena DO?
Vendemia Inicial
What DO makes Doble Pasta from Bobal?
Utiel Requena is the most famous for it.
What the most produced style of wine in Valencia DO?
White from Merseguera
What is Vino de Misa/Vino Consagrar Valencia?
Vino de Licor used as sacramental wine from Valencia DO
What are the DOs of Murcia?
Jumilla DO
Yecla DO
Bullas DO
What kind of soil is found in Jumilla DO?
Sand
No phylloxera until 1980s
What percentage of Jumilla DO’s production is Tinto and Rosado?
95%
What is the grape can be varietally labeled in Jumilla DO?
Monastrell (mourvedre)
What was wine from Jumilla DO traditionally used for?
Dark doble pasta style was used to fortify lighter wines from other regions
What grape accounts for 85% of all planting s in Yecla DO?
Monastrell
What are the DO Pagos of Valencia? Where are they all located?
All in Utiel-Requena DO
El Terrerazo (2010)
Los Balagueses (2011)
Vera de Estenas (2019)
