Spain Flashcards
What is the main white grape of Rueda?
Verdejo.
Who and what facilitated the modern age of Spanish wine making?
Phylloxera in France in 1850’s and 1860’s.
Bordeaux-trained Marqués de Riscal and Marqués de Murrieta returned to Rioja with grape varieties and lessons from the Médoc, including barrique aging (called barricas in Spain) and estate bottling (performed at their newly constructed bodegas)
Where is Vega Sicilia made? Who was the founder? Name of wine.
Ribera del Duero. Don Eloy Lecanda y Chaves. Unico.
What is the most important grape of Bierzo DO? Where is it? Describe the wines.
Mencia. Castillo y Leon. Fruity, aromatic and refreshing red wine with grace and finesse.
What is the most important white grape of Rias Baixas?
Albariño.
What wines go in to making dry, white Ribiero?
Albariño, Treixadura, Loureira, Torrontés, and, increasingly, Godello
Where is Ribeira Sacra? What wines are made there?
Northwestern, inland. White from Godello and red from Mencia. Steep, terraces along the Sil and Miño rivers.
What is the climate of Ribera del Duero?
Hot summers with cool summer nights (94 day/ 54 night).
Good acidity and brightness due to the cool nights. Wines of intense color, fruit and savor.
Harvest in late October.
Name for Tempranillo in Ribera del Duero?
Tinto Fino or Tinta del Pais.
Where is Pingus from?
Ribera del Duero.
Where is Numanthia located?
Toro
What is the name of Tempranillo in Toro?
Tinta de Toro.
What is the altitude of Toro and rainfall? What types of vines?
High altitude, cool nights (to fix color), low rainfall (almost desert like).
Record low vine density (bush vines/ old vines).
What is the white wine of Rueda? Describe it.
Verdejo. Dry, crisp with good acidity. Able to develop its full minerality due to longer ripening time than SB.
What are the red wines of Rueda sold as? Grape?
Vino de la Tierra Castilla y Leon. Tempranillo and some Cabernet Sauvignon.
What are the grapes of Cava?
Parellada, Macabeo and Xarel-lo.
What geological formation allows for viticulture in Rioja? What are the other mountains?
Sierra de Cantabria mountains. Otherwise too buffeted by Atlantic winds.
Sierra de la Demanda and the Sierra de Cameros
What are the 3 regions of Rioja?
Rioja Baja, Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Alta.
What are the soils of Alta and Alavesa?
Clay in Rioja Alta and limestone in Rioja Alavesa
What is the name for Carignan in Rioja?
Mazuelo
What is the main grape of Rioja? Secondary grapes?
Tempranillo, graciano (Morrastel in the Languedoc, Tinta Miuda in Portugal), Garnacha and Mazuelo.
What is the original wine capital of Rioja?
Haro. Perfect positioning and transportation hub with train station.
What is a well known name known for traditional style whites in Rioja? (Also reds)
Lopez de Heredia- Viña Tondonia. Can challenge the whites of Bordeaux- aged for decades in barrels
What is the main river of Rioja? Tributary?
Ebro. Oja.
How big is a Rioja cask?
225 liters.
What are the five sub zones of Rias Baixas?
Val do Salnés, Ribeira do Ulla, Soutomaior, O Rosal, and Condado do Tea
What are the five DOs of Galicia?
Rías Baixas, Ribeiro, Valdeorras, Ribeira Sacra, and Monterrei.
What are the DOs of the Basque Country?
Getariako Txakolina
Bizkaiko Txakolina
Arabako Txakolina
What is the white grape of the Pais Vascos? Red?
Ondarrabi Zuri.
Ondarrabi Beltza
What are the DOs of Castilla y Leon?
Ribera del Duero Arlanza Cigales Rueda Toro Tierra del Vino de Zamora Arribes Tierra de León Bierzo
What are the DOs of Catalonia?
Priorat Montsant Tarragona Penedès Alella Empordà Pla de Bages Conca de Barberá Terra Alta Costers del Segre
Who introduced stainless steel fermentation to Spain?
Miguel Torres.
Who created the modern day reds of Priorat? Where?
Rene Barbier (Clos Mogador). Gratallops.
Where does the Priorat get it’s name from?
Priorato de Scala Dei, a Carthusian monastery (priory) founded on the site of a boy’s vision of angels ascending to heaven
What are the soils of the Priorat?
Llicorella, a mix of black slate and quartzite
What are the five original Clos of Priorat?
Clos Mogador, Palacios’ Clos Dofi, Clos Erasmus, Clos de l’Obac, and Clos Martinet
What are the historic wines of Tarragona?
fortified rancio or mistela, the Spanish version of vin de liqueur