Sherry

Question 1

Rootstock used in Jerez

Answer 1

13-5 EVEX
V vinifera x berlandier resseguier

Phylloxera resistant
Fungal disease resistant
Drought tolerant
Chlorosis resistant
Good yield
Came from Gonzales Byass

Question 2

Jerez pruning method

Answer 2

Vara y pulgar

Cordon with replacement cane
8 buds in vara

Question 3

What is Aserpia?

Answer 3

Rigging up of soils between rows to capture rain in winter.

Important to retain more sub soil moisture during dry summer months.

Question 4

What is the volume of a sherry butt?

Answer 4

600lt

Question 5

What is Mitad y mitad

Answer 5

When 95% abv grape spirit is mixed with mature sherry and added to the base wine to avoid shocking the young wine when fortifying it.

Question 6

What are the 4 classes of Bodega?

Answer 6

Bodega de Production - vineyard owners/ farmers who make base wine and sell it in bulk to….

Bodega de Elaboracion - mature wine for a short time and sell on.

Bodega de Crianza y Almacenado -
Almacenistas - aging bodega, can’t sell bottled wines.

Bodega de Crianza y Expedition - mature wine and sell it to market as a bottled product. E.g. Gonzales Byass, Lustau

Question 7

Which markets showed growth for sherry?

Answer 7

France + Denmark

UK and Netherlands are also important.
80% shipped to UK is cream sherry

Question 8

Who are Williams and Humbert?

Answer 8

Established 1877
Owned by the Medina Group since 1988.
Own 240ha of vineyard this is 1/3 of their requirement.
Significant number of Buyer own Brands
Dry Sack medium 
Canasta Cream (Oloroso with Px)
Use wild yeast
70.000 butt capacity

Question 9

What is Grupo Estevez?

Answer 9

Sherry shipper established 1974
Real Tosoro, Valdespino, Ramires Perez Marin.
800ha of vineyards
50% of sales are private label
Fino Innocente is an important wine - barrel fermented which is a rarity

Question 10

Who is Gonzalez Byass, Jerez?

Answer 10

Established 1835
Owned by Gonzales Gordon family.
Biggest producer of biological sherries.
2/3 under flor.
Mainly Fino
Tio Pepe No. 1 best selling fino
Croft original pale cream 
Apostles Amontillado del Durque (highend)
VORS Noe PX 
Ananda Palo Cortado
30,000 butts
Helped begin the En Rama (unfiltered) style to be more relevant to the market.

Question 11

Who is Lustau in Jerez?

Answer 11

Established 1896
Owned by Cabellero Group since 1990
130ha of vineyard
Significant buyer own brand sales
Vintage dates ananda style sine 1990
Premiumisation leader with almacenista range In 1980s - high end and fashionable.
Premium labels - La Ina Fino, Solera reserva and almacenista bottlings.

Question 12

Who is Bodega Tradicion, Jerez?

Answer 12

Established 1998 by Joaquin Rivero
no vineyards
Buys from almacenistas and other bodegas
All work is done by hand
No cold stabilization 
No filtering
Only 20,000 bottles per year
Very small, boutique and premium
Does VOS and VORS
Small range of classic styles

Question 13

Who is Bodega Fundador

Answer 13

Established 1730s
Owned by Andrew Tan since 2016
Significant vineyard ownership
Key brand is Harvey’s Bristol cream - for volume.

Question 14

Who are Urium?

Answer 14

Started 2007
Owned by Ruiz family
Purchased stocks of high quality almacenista rare sherry - 500 butts
This allowed for a a commercial release of a VORS range.

Gran Senor de Urium 100yr old Palo Cortado is the most prestigious wine

Question 15

Jerez almacenistas?

Answer 15

Juan Garcia Jarana - supplies Lustau with pats de Gallina Oloroso seco

Views - Palo Cortado specialist - rare and exquisite Sherries.

Question 16

Sanlúcar de Barrameda shippers

Answer 16

Hidalgo 
La Gitana manzanilla, Wellington Palo Cortado 
90% of production is for manzanilla 
Small quantities of Manzanilla Pasada 
Relies on their own vineyards
500ha including Miraflores in Sanlúcar

Delgado Zuleta
Make La Goya 
1774- Said to be the oldest in the Marco de Jerez
No vineyards
800,000 lt annual production

Question 17

Role of the consejo Regulado

Answer 17

Consejo regulado de las denominaciones Origen Jerez-Xérès-Sherry
Established 1933 1935 full legal status
Inter professional industry body
Establish and enforced rules of D.O
Guarantees quality of wine produced
Acts as custodian of DO’s assets
Organised marketing, promotions, training
Maintains register of vineyards and what soils they are planted on + Bodega stocks, movements and rotations
Sets maximum yield + min alcohol level
Maximum stock depletion and veracity of age claims

Question 18

What is primera Yema?

Answer 18

First run juice - suitable for fino styles

This also g with the escurrido (juice from the trailer) accounts for 75% of the potential juice)

Question 19

Equipo Navazos

Answer 19

Jerez - started 2005 by Jesus Barquin. Buys small stocks of rare sherry for 650 bottle bottlings.

Light filtration no house style preferring to highlight the importance of vineyard on the wine.

La bota amontillado no. 1 - 2005

Question 20

Sacchromyces Yeast strains for sherry?

4 strains

Answer 20

Saccharomyces beticus
Saccharomyces bayanus
Saccharomyces capensis

Saccharomyces cheriensis is dominant in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

Question 21

Sweetend sherry

Answer 21

Vinos Generosos de Licoror

PX - for high quality wines
Moscotel (muscat de Alexandria)
HRGM - highly rectified grape must
Arrope - cooked down and caramlised grape must this is used for pale cream.
Mistela - fortified must of Px or moscatel

Gonzalez Byass Matusalem
Harvey’s Oloroso VORS
Lustau East India

Pale 45g- 115g
Medium 5-115g
Cream 115-140g

Question 22

What is a pagos?

Answer 22

Vineyard

Pago is singular

Question 23

Gonzalez Byass

Answer 23

1835

Question 24

Groupo Estevez

Answer 24

1974

Question 25

Lustau

Answer 25

1896

Cabellero Group since 1990

Question 26

Williams and Humbert

Answer 26

1877

Medina group 1988