Spain Flashcards
Who founded Vega Secilia and when?
Don Eloy Lecanda Chaves
Brought cuttings of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and planted next to tempranillo.
What is the blend of Unico?
Tinto del Pais (tempranillo), Cab Sauv, Merlot
from low-yielding, 60- to 65-year-old vines
Often aged over 10 yrs
American and French Oak
2013 current vintage
Retails about $400/bottle
What is Valbuena 5°?
Primarily Tempranillo, with some Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon
A younger wine released in every vintage, with grapes from 25- to 35-year-old vines.
Fermented in stainless steel and aged for three years in oak followed by two in bottle.
Where is Tinto Pesquera?
Ribera del Duero
What is Tinto Pesquera Millenium Gran Reserva?
100% Tempranillo
Aged 30 months in French oak barrels, then 10 months in bottle. Inaugural vintage 2008.
What is Pesquera Janus Gran Reserva?
100% Tempranillo from some of the highest vineyard parcels in the region. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel vats, followed by three years of aging in a combination of American and French oak barrels, then three years maturing in bottle. Inaugural vintage 1975. (No longer produced.)
What is the blend of Pingus?
100% Tempranillo.
Aged in a mix of old and new barrique for 18 months. Inaugural vintage 1995.
2006 = $3620
What makes Pingus Special?
100% tempranillo
2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) in Barrosso with vines older than 65 years
1.5 hectares in San Cristobal with vines older than 70 years
yields of 12 hl/ha
less than 500 cases made each year
not made in poor vintages
biodynamic
What is the blend of Flor di Pingus?
2nd wine of Pingus
100% Tempranillo.
Aged in a mix of old and new barrique for about 14 months. Inaugural vintage 1996.
What is special about Amelia? Who makes it?
Dominio de Pingus makes it.
100% Tempranillo from over 100-year-old vines.
Single barrel cuvée aged 18 months in one Darnajou barrique.
Inaugural vintage 2003.
Where is AALTO Bodegas y Viñedos?
Ribero del Duero
What is the blend of AALTO PS? Current release?
100% Tempranillo from select clones. The fruit comes from 60- to 100-year-old vines from a parcel in Burgos. The wine ages for two years before it is clarified and fined with egg whites. Only produced in the best vintages.
2020
Retails about $110
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What is Vega Sicilia’s project in Toro DO?
Bodegas Pintia
What is the sister bodega of Vega Secilia in Ribera del Duero?
Alion
-aged for a shorter time in new French oak
What is the “PSI” project in RdD?
Pingus project
joint project based on fruit produced by local grape growers from old tempranillo vines. The goal is to help grape producers and save old vines
Grape growers are encouraged to employ biodynamic or organic vineyard management practices.