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Meseta: Castilla- La Mancha Flashcards

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1
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Describe the Meseta

A

Plateau in centre of Spain
Broad and flat
Mountains surrounding

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Montilla

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Iberians
Man made mound
10m high 5 km apart
indigenous people of the Meseta
For guarding a water source
Pre history 2200BC
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Who brought wine culture to the Meseta

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Phoenicians 1100BC in Valdepenas

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4
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What are the famous animals of the Meseta and what do they produce

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Sheep
Manchego cheese
Merino wool

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5
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Who came to Meseta between the Phoenicians and the Romans

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Carthaganians

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What is the name of the famous Roman road goign from Cadiz to France

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Via Augusta

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7
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Who invaded and made Toledo the capital in 569

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Visigoths

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8
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What did the Moors call the area when they took the land in 711

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Manxa => Mancha

Land without water

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9
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The area was free of battles during the Reconquista. T or F

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False - battle ground throughout area

Lots of castles

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10
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When was the Spanish golden Age

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15-17c after unification

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11
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Who was Miguel Cervantes

A

Writer from Castille la Mancha
Wrote Don Quixote
1605

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12
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Who was Carlos Falco

A

Marques de Grinon
Studied winemaking abroad
Brought international techniques
1950s?

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13
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When was CLM made an autonomous region

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1982

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Which is Spain’s 3 largest region

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CLM

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15
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Is CLM densely populated

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No - only 4% of popultaion, 16% of area

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What is CLM’s location

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N= CyL and Madrid
E= Aragon and Valencia
S= Murcia and Andalucía
W= Extremadura
Capital = Toledo
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17
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How many provinces

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5
Albacete - most populated 2 x Toledo
Ciudad Real
Cuenca
Guadalajara
Toledo
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18
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What is the climate of CLM

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Continental - extreme
Some med in the East
Levante wind
Rainfall v low 500mm

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What is the Levante

A 
=Solano
Easterly Med wind from Central Med
Balearics and South/East Spain
Cloudy and humid
May to October
Opposite Poneinte
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20
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What is the topography of Castilla La Mancha

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Flat- 80% central plateau
Mtns N=Sistema Iberico and Sistema Central
S= Sierra Morena and Sistema Betico
W= Montes de Toledo
Vineyards generally 760m
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21
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What are the main rivers of CLM

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Tajo
Guadina = Atlantic
Jucar
Segura =Med

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22
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What are the main soils of CLM

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LImestone

Clay above

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23
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What are the white grapes of CLM

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Airen = most planted grape in Spain (4th in world)

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24
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What are the red grapes of CLM

A

Tempranillo
Garnacha Tintorera!

Cencibel
Garnacha Tinta
Monastrell

International varieties

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25
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Viti of CLM

A

Almost 50% of all vineyard land in Spain

En vaso or Marco Real
=> Espaldera

New irrigation

Move to organic

Land of Pagos

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26
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Vini of CLM

A

Traditionally bulk wines
Base wines for brandy

Move to higher quality blends

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27
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What is the date of DO La Mancha

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1932 OLD!

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28
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What is the dominant wine style of DO La Mancha

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Tinto 75%
Blanco 19% ++

Was bulk
fresh and fruity reds

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29
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What is the soil type of DO La Mancha

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Limestone

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30
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DO La Mancha - climate

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Continental

350mm

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31
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DO La Mancha - topgraphy

A

165,470ha!!
Largest in Spain and the world
800m
Covers 4 of 5 provinces

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32
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DO La Mancha - grapes

A

Airen = (88% of 71%white) plantings

Cencibel (Tempranillo)

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33
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DO Manchuela - date

A

2000

Split from DO La Mancha in 1982

34
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DO Manchuela - wine style

A

Tinto = 60%
Rosado 30% ++

DOBLE PASTA
High alcohol
many blends

35
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DO Manchuela - soil type

A

Limestone

36
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DO Manchuela - climate

A

Continental
350mm
Levante!

37
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DO Manchuela - topgraphy

A

6,709 ha
flat
1,100 m
Eastern border

38
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DO La Mancha - OCW

A

Mancha, La, Europe’s largest single demarcated wine region in the heart of Spain (see map under spain). By 2012 the vineyards of the do La Mancha had shrunk to 160,000 ha/385,000 acres of arid table land from the satellite towns south of Madrid to the hills beyond valdepeñas nearly 200 km/125 miles to the south. The Moors christened it Manxa, meaning ‘parched earth’, and that is an apt description of the growing conditions in southern Castile, castilla-la mancha. rainfall is unreliable, with annual totals averaging between 300 and 400 mm/12 to 16 in. Summers are hot with temperatures rising to over 40 °C/104 °F, while winters are bitterly cold with prolonged frosts.

The doughty airén vine seems to be well suited to these extreme conditions and is therefore popular among La Mancha’s 18,000 smallholders. It was planted on a grand total of about 180,000 ha of La Mancha, and about 65% of all land dedicated to the do. It is planted at the remarkably low vine density of between 1,200 and 1,600 vines per hectare (485–650 per acre) because of the very dry climate. fungal diseases are almost unknown in La Mancha’s dry growing season and cultivation is therefore relatively easy. Average yields of between 40 and 45 hl/ha (1.9 tons/acre) have increased significantly with the increase in trellis systems and drip irrigation which extended to more than 40% of vineyards by 2014.

Technological development has given La Mancha a new lease of life and opened new and more discerning markets for the region’s fresh, inexpensive, if rather neutral dry white wines. Red wines, made increasingly from Cencibel (tempranillo) grapes, have also improved enormously and a number of enterprising growers are experimenting with other grape varieties, including cabernet sauvignon, syrah, petit verdot, graciano, verdejo, sauvignon blanc, and chardonnay, now admitted and even encouraged by do regulations. Despite the reduction in total vineyard area, annual production has risen from 2 to 7 million hl/185 million gal produced annually, a large part is still distilled into industrial alcohol or sent to jerez to make brandy de Jerez.

39
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DO Manchuela - grapes

A

Red - Bobal 10%

many others for red/white

40
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What is the doble pasta method

A

dark, full-bodied Spanish wine produced by running off a proportion of fermenting must after two days and adding more crushed grapes to refill the vat. The ratio of skin to pulp is effectively doubled, producing wines with a deep, black colour and very high levels of tannin. Doble pasta wines have traditionally been made in jumilla, yecla, utiel-requena, manchuela, and alicante, e.

41
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DO Manchuela - OCW

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ne of Spain’s newest wine regions, granted a do in 2000, with vineyards totalling more than 55,000 ha/130,000 acres (although only 3,700 ha of these were registered for DO wines in 2014) on the eastern border of castilla-la mancha, straddling Cuenca and Albacete provinces. This is the home of the Bobal grape, which is mainly used for rosés and unoaked young reds, with Tempranillo growing in importance for oak-aged reds. At least one private estate was making a name for itself by adapting Syrah to the local clay-limestone terroir and making blends with the best local varieties Monastrell, Garnacha, Garnacha Tintorera (alicante bouschet), and Bobal. The white Macabeo also produces very drinkable fragrant whites in northern Albacete, while the local Albilla de Manchuela has been rediscovered as a good quality grape. Overall, this high plateau, which reaches an elevation of more than 1,000 m/3,280 ft in western Cuenca shows great potential but has mostly lacked the investment required to develop it.

42
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DO Valedepanas - date

A

1932 - OLD

Finds of wine making 700BC
Made wine during time of Moors

43
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DO Valedepanas - wine style

A

Tinto 83%
Blanco 14%

Aloque = Clarete (semi-red)

Wines aged similar to DO La Mancha - Crianza etc

44
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DO Valedepanas - soils

A

Limestone

45
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DO Valedepanas - climate

A

Continental

Rainfall 400mm

46
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DO Valedepanas - topography

A

Valley of Stones
Southern CLM

21,832ha
820m

47
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DO Valedepanas - grapes

A 
White = Airen
Red = Cencibel (Tempranillo)
48
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What is Aloque

A

Also known as Clarete
Trad = Red and white WINES blended for rose
Stored in Tinajas

Modern = co-ferment of Cencibal and Airen

49
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What are Tinajas

A

tinaja, large, earthenware vessel, probably developed from the Roman amphorae, occasionally still used to ferment and store wine in central and southern spain modern versions are mostly made from reinforced concrete.

50
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VP Dominio de Valdepusa - date

A 
2003
One of first Vinos de Pago in Spain
Owned by Carlos Falco
Marques de Grinon
Family estate since 13c
51
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VP Dominio de Valdepusa - style

A

100% Tinto
ÑO WHITES

Varietals and Blends

52
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VP Dominio de Valdepusa - soil

A

Limestone

53
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VP Dominio de Valdepusa - climate

A

Continental

450mm

54
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VP Dominio de Valdepusa - topgraphy

A

490m
49ha
Marques de Grinon winery

55
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VP Dominio de Valdepusa - grapes

A

Cab Sav, Syrah, Petit Verdot Graciano

NO TEMPRANILLO

56
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VP Dominio de Valdepusa - OCW

A

The one producer who is making high-quality wine in this part of Spain, Marqués de Griñon, grows cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, syrah, and petit verdot in his vineyard. He spurned the opportunity to jump rank from what was then the lowest to the local do and was rewarded in 2002 with his own single-estate DO (see vino de pago), Dominio de Valdepusa.

57
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VP Finca Elez - date

A

2003

Also one of Spain’s first VdPagos

58
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VP Finca Elez - style

A

95% Tinto

Blanco 5%

59
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VP Finca Elez - soil

A

Limestone

60
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VP Finca Elez - climate

A

Continenta;

440mm

61
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VP Finca Elez - topgrpahy

A

1,080m high
39ha
SE

Vinedos y Bodegas Manual Mazaneque

62
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VP Finca Elez - grapes

A

Chardonnay

Cab Sav, merlot, Tempranillo, Syrah

63
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VP Finca Elez - OCW

A

Finca Élez is a Spanish do created especially for the high-elevation estate of Manuel Manzaneque.

64
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How many VPs in CLM

A

12

65
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What is the only Spanish grape planted at VP Dominio de Valdepusa

A

Graciano

66
Q

What is the worlds largest delimited DOP wine area

A

DO La Mancha

67
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What is the name of the semi-red wine made in DO Valdepenas

A

Aloque (Clarete)

68
Q

Approximately what % of CLM land mass is part of the central plateau

A

80%

69
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what is the most widely planted grape in CLM

A

Airen

70
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What is the most widely planted red grape in CLM

A

Tempranillo

71
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Airen is the world’s most planted grape T or F

A

False - It is 4th but top white

72
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Which grape is VP Finca Elez celebrated for

A

Chardonnay

73
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DO La Mancha is dominated by red plantings T or F

A

False - its 71% white

74
Q

What % of Vineyard land in Spain is in CLM

A

49.5%

75
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What is the climate of CLM

A

Continental

76
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What are the 2 reasons why the eastern part of CLM experiences some Mediterranean influence

A

Nearer to Coast and Levante winds

77
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What is the dominant variety in DO Manchuela

A

Bobal

78
Q

What does Valdepenas mean in English

A

Valley of Stones

79
Q

Name the first 2 Vinos de Pago in Spain

A

VP Dominio de Valdepusa and VP Finca Elez

80
Q

What is the famous spice grown in CLM

A

Saffron

81
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What is the most planted grape on CLM

A

Airen

82
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What is Tempranillo called in CLM

A

Cencibel

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