Producer profile 3.0 Flashcards
Spain
What are the 4 wines of the CVNE?
Precise the only one produce as white?
- Viña Real: grapes are sourced from the Rioja Alavesa region
- Imperial: Sourced from the 28 Ha estate in the Rioja Alta region
- Contino: Started as a join project in 1973 - 62 Ha of vine in Rioja Alavesa
- Monopole: 100% Viura grapes / oldest white wine brand in Spain: inaugural vintage: 1915
What does mean CVNE?
Compañia Vinicola del Norte de España
Who’s the producer of the following wine?
Monopole
- CVNE
- 100% Viura
- First white wine brand in Spain: first produced in 1915
Who’s the producer of the following wine:
Imperial
- CVNE
- Grapes sourced from a 28 Ha vineyard within the Rioja Alta sub-region
- Blend of Tempranillo + Graciano, Manuela from low yielding vines
- Aged in American oaks
- First produced on the 1920’s
- Only produced in best vintages
Who’s the producer of the following wine:
Contino
- CVNE
- First produced in 1973 as a joint project
- 62 Ha estate of the Rioja Alavesa
Who’s producing the following wine:
Viña Real
- CVNE
- Grapes are sourced from the Rioja Alavesa region
- Established on the 1920’s
- 95% Tempranillo + Graciano
- Aged in a mixture of french and American oaks
What are All 4 wines of Lopez de Heredia?
- Viña Tondonia
- Viña Bosconia
- Viña Cubillas
- Viña Gravonia
When did Bodegas López de Heredia been created?
Where are they based?
1877
Haro
Who’s produced Viña Tondonia?
Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
Based in Haro
Who’s the producer of Viña Bosconia?
- Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
- 15 Ha based in Tempranillo Mazuelo, Garnacha and Graciano
- Haro
Who’s the producer of Viña Cubillo?
- Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
- 24 Ha from Viña Cubillas
Who is the producer of Viña Gravonia?
Where is it sourced?
- Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
- 24 Ha sourced from the Viña Zaconia
- 100% Viura
What are the top 3 cuvee of La Rioja Alta
- Gran Reserva 890: Tempranillo + Graciano and Mazuelo
- Gran Reserva 904: Mostly Tempranillo + Graciano
- Vina Ardanza: 70-80% Tempranillo + 20-30% Ganarcha from the Rioja Oriental
Producer and location of the following wine
Rioja Gran Reserva 890
La Rioja Alta
- Haro
- The 890 commemorate to the date of the creation of the initial estate in 1890 by Monsieur Vigier
Producer and location of the following wine
Rioja Gran Reserva 904
La Rioja Alta
- Haro
- Mostly Tempranillo blended with some Graciano
- Commemorates the 1904 fusion between La Rioja Alta and Ardanza winery
Producer and location of the following wine
Viña Ardanza
La Rioja Alta
- Tempranilo 70-80% + Garnacha
- Rioja Baja
Where is Vega Sicilia located?
Ribera del Duero DO
Within the Valladolid wine region
Producer and location of the following wine
Único
Vega Sicilia
- Ribera del Duero
- Prestige cuvee, base of old Tempranillo vines
- aged for 10 years in large neutral oak prior to bottle
Producer and location of the following wine
Valbuena 5°
Vega Sicilia
- Ribera del Duero
- Base of Tempranillo plus a small amount of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon
- wines are aged for 5 years in wooden vat prior bottling
What is the last vintage of Valbuena 3°
1988
- Ribera del Duero
- Vega Sicilia
What is the first vintage of Bodega Alion?
Who’s the producer?
Vega Sicilia
1991
In what vintages, Vega Sicilia did not produced any Valbuena and Unico either?
- 1963
- 1971
- 1993
Who’s the producer and location of the following wine?
Prado Enea
Bodegas Muga
- Rioja DOCG - Haro
- Inaugural vintage: 1968
- 80% Tempranillo + Garnacha, Mazuelo, Graciano
Who’s the producer and location of the following wine:
Torre Muga
Bodegas Muga
- Rioja DOCG - Haro
- 75%Tempranillo + Graciano and Mazuelo
- second wine of Prado Enea
What is the prestige cuvee of Tinto Pesquera?
Janus
- Ribera del Duero - Valladolid
- 100% Tempranillo
What are the sisters winery of Tinto Pesquera?
- Condado de Haza: AKA Chateau de la Ribera - Ribera del Duero
- Dehesa la Granja: Zamora
- El Vinculo: Castilla La Mancha, since 1999
Who’s the owner on founders of Pesquera winery?
- *Familiar Fernandez Rivera**
- Ribera del Duero*
When did Domingo de Pingus establish the first vineyards?
First created in 1995 in Valladolid - Ribera del Duero DO
Who’s the producer and location of the following wine:
Amelia
Domingo de Pingus
- 100% Tempranillo
- Valladolid - Ribera del Duero
- 100 years old vines
- First vintage: 2003
Where Bodegas Marqués de la Murrieta located?
Rioja DOCG
Logroño
What is the first white wine in Spain to received 100 point Parker - Wine Advocate?
- Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 1986 from Marques de Murrieta
- 20+ years of ageing in American wood
- 97% Viura + Malvasia
Who’s the producer and location of the following wine:
Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva
Marques de Murrieta
- Tempranillo + Mazuelo
- 26 mouth of ageing in wood + 2 years in bottle prior releasing
Name the white wine produced by Bodegas Marques de Murrieta?
Capellanía
100% Viura planted in 1945
What was the first estate of Rioja to do 100% Estate bottling wines
- *Bodegas Remelluri**
- Rioja - Labastida*
Where is Bodegas Remelluri located?
Rioja DOCa
- Labastida
- Established in 1967
Where is Bodegas y Vinedos Artadi located?
Rioja DOCa
- Rioja Alavesa - Laguardia
- Established in 1985
Name the person who created the Bodegas Artadi winery?
When?
- Juan Carlos Lopez de Lacalle
- 1985
What was the first winery to leave the Rioja DOCa consortium?
When did it happen?
Bodegas Artadi in 2015.
They felt than Rioja on the label was not valuable anymore for their wines, and did not wanted to be compared with other lower quality wine from the region.
What is the inaugural vintage of Artadi Grandes Añadas wine?
1994
only produced in exceptional vintages
What are the 3 vineyards bottling wine of Bodegas Artadi?
- La Poza Ballesteros: 100% Tempranillo - Clay-limestone
- El Carretil: clay-limestone over sandstone rock
- Valdegines: compacted clay-limestone
All wine are 100% Tempranillo
What is the prestige wine of Bodega Numanthia?
Where is it coming from?
Termanthia
- Toro DO
- 140 years old ungrafted vines
- 200% new oak
- First vintage: 2000
Why is Bodega Numanthia so Particular in Spain?
- They have some of the oldest vine of the country, from a 140 years old ungrafted Tempranillo vine.
- Produced wine in Toro DO
When was Bodegas Numanthia been created? By who?
Can you precise the current owner?
Established in 1998 by Eguren Family in Toro DO
Since 2008, its runs by LVMH group
Producer and location of the following wine:
Termanthia
- Prestige cuvee of Bodega Numantia
- First vintage: 2000
- DO: Toro
- Produced from ungrafted 140-yers old Tempranillo vines
Name some wineries based in Haro?
- CVNE
- Bodegas Muga
- Vina Tondonia
- Ramon Bilbao
- Bodega Paternina
- Bodega Roeda
- Bodega la Rioja Alta
What are the vintages blended for the lastest released of Vega Sicilia Unico Reserva Especial 2019 edition?
- 2009
- 2007
- 2006
Can you mention blended vintage of the previous releasing of Vega Sicilia Unico Reserva Especial?
- 2019 release: 06, 07, 09
- 2018 release: 05, 06, 07
- 2017 release: 03, 04, 06
- 2016 release: 96, 98, 02
Where is Bodegas Roda Located?
What are their flagship wines?
Rioja Alta
- RODA I: 100% Tempranillo - Reserva wine only
- RODA: Mostly Tempranillo + Graciano / Garnacha
- Cirsion: 100% Tempranillo from hand selected Bunches
Producer, location and first vintage of the following:
RODA I
- Bodegas Roda
- Rioja Alta
- 100% Tempranillo
- released as Reserva only
- First Vintage: 1992
Name the producer, first vintage and location of the following wine:
RODA
- Bodegas Roda
- Rioja Alta
- Mostly Tempranillo + Graciano and Garnacha
- First vintage: 1992
- This wine was called RODA II between 1992 and 2001
Name the producer, location and first vintage of the following:
Cirsion
- Bodegas Roda
- Rioja Alta
- First vintage: 1998
- 100% Tempranillo from selected / hand-harvested bunches
Who created the AALTO Bodegas y Viñedos?
Where is the winery located?
- Mariano Garcia: Head winemaker of Vega Sicilia from 1968 to 1998
- Javier Zaccagnini: Head do Spain’s Consejo Regulador
- Ribiera del Duero DO - Valladolid
Who was the head winemaker of Vega Sicilia from 1968 to 1998?
What project did he created then?
Mariano Garcia
AALTO Bodegas y Viñedos is its new project: He wants to created a world class Tempranillo from the Ribera del Duero terroir
What is the prestige cuvee of AALTO Bodegas y Viñedos?
- AALTO PS
- 100% Tempranillo from 60-100 years old vines
- Ribera del Duero DO - Valladolid
- Only produced in exceptional vintages
Where is Bodegas Faustino located?
Oyón
Rioja Alavesa
Know as th largest exporter winery for Reserva and Gran Reserva wines n Rioja.
Location and prestige cuvee of the following:
Bodegas Marqués de Riscal
Rioja Alavesa - Elciego
- Founded in 1858
- Holding vineyard: 500 Ha
- Controled vineyard: over 900 Ha
- Prestige cuvee: Baron de Chirel - 1986 only produced in exceptional vintages
What is the prestige cuvee of Bodegas Marqués de Riscal
Baron de Chirel
- Based in Rioja Alavesa
- 80-100 years old vine of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon
- Only produced in exceptional vintages
Location and prestige cuvee of the following:
Finca Allende
Rioja Alta - Briones
-
Aurus: Tempranillo based + Graciano
- First vintage: 1996
-
Calvario: Tempranillo + Graciano
- First vintage: 1999
Focus in terroir wine and single parcel bottling
Producer and first vintage of the following:
Aurus
Finca Allende
- Rioja Alta
- 80 years old vine of : 85% Tempranillo + Graciano
- Single parcel of clay/loam soil
- Inaugural vintage: 1996
Producer and first vintage of the following:
Calvario
Finca Allende
- Rioja Alta
- Tempranillo + Graciano vines planted in 1945
- Single south-eastern facing slope vineyard
- First vintage: 1999
