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1
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What is Rancio style wine?

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Wines with a pungent aroma due to oxidation/Maderization (i.e. Madeira)

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What two prominent figures were instrumental in updating and modernizing the Rioja Region?

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Marques de Murrieta and Marques de Riscal

Introduced Barrique aging and estate bottling

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What is Quercus Alba?

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American Oak

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Name Four traditionalist producers of Rioja

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CVNE
Lopez de Heredia
Berceo
La Rioja Alta

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5
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Where was Cava Born?

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San Sadurni d’Anoia

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What three regions saw the first Consejo Reguladores?

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Malaga
Jerez
Rioja

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What is a Consejo Reguladores?

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A governing body for a DO, controlling the laws around its production.

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8
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What did Miguel Torres bring to Spanish Wine Production?

When and where?

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Temperature controlled Fermentation
Stainless Steel Vats
1960’s Catalonia

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Typically, what is necessary to qualify for DO Pago status?

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It requires a decade of quality wine production, and rules stricter than the DO they are within that indicate quality wine making.

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In General, what are the aging requirements for Spain?

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Crianza: 2 Years aging, with 6 months in Barrel

Reserva: 3 Years aging with 1 Year in Barrel

Gran Reserva: 5 Years aging with 18 Months in Barrel

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What are the Aging requirements for Rioja?

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Crianza: 2 Years aging, with 1 Year in Barrel

Reserva: 3 Years aging, with at least 1 Year in barrel and 6 months in bottle

Gran Reserva: 5 years aging, with 2 Years in Barrel and 2 Years in Bottle

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What are the aging requirements for Ribera del Duero?

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Crianza: 2 Years aging with 1 Year in Barrel

Reserva: 3 Years aging with 1 Year in Barrel

Gran Reserva: 5 Years aging, with 2 Years in Barrel, and 3 Years in Bottle

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Aside from Crianza to Gran Reserva, what other aging designations can appear on a bottle?

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Noble: 18 months in a cask less than 600L

Anejo: 24 Months in a cask less than 600L

Viejo: Showing a marked oxidative character

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14
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What three Autonomias are included in North Central Spain?

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Navarra
La Rioja
Aragon

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15
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What mountain ranges border Northern Spain?

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The Pyrenees (North East)
The Cantabrians (North West)
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What is the Main river of Rioja and what is its most important tributary?

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The Ebro runs through Rioja from the Cantabrian Mountains, and the Oja river is a tributary for which it is named.

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17
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When did the first Spanish region become a DOCa? What was it?

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Rioja in 1991

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What is the main grape of Rioja? What are its blending partners?

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Tempranillo

Mazuelo (carignan)
Graciano
Garnacha
Maturana Tinta (approved in 2007)

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19
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What percentage of Rioja must be approved grapes?

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85%

95% if destemmed

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What are the dominant white grapes of White Rioja?

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Viura
Garnacha Blanca
Malvasia Riojano
Maturana Blanca

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21
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What is the minimum required red grape percentage in Rosado Rioja?

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25%

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What are the general aging requirements for Rosado and Blanco Rioja?

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Crianza: 2 Years aging, 6 months barrique

Reserva: 2 Years aging, 6 months in Barriques and the rest in bottle

Gran Reserva: 4 Years aging, 6 months in barrique, the rest in bottle

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23
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What are the three climatic Zones of Rioja DOCa?

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Rioja Alta
Rioja Alavesa
Rioja Oriental

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24
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Where is Joven Rioja typically from, and what style?

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Usually from Rioja Alavesa, with a bit of Carbonic Maceration

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What are the soil types of Rioja’s three Climatic zones?

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Alavesa/Alta: High proportion of Calcareous Clay

Oriental: Alluvial Soil, ferrous clay

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Generally, when Rioja wines are made and blended, what does each Climatic zone contribute to the blend?

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Alta: Acidity and Structure

Oriental: Alcoholic Warmth

Alavesa: Freshness

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Describe Bodegas Ysios wines.

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Pure Tempranillo from estate vineyards in Alavesa

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28
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Where is Bodegas Ysios? Who designed it?

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Laguardia

Santiago Calatrava

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What are the 4 main single vineyards of Lopez de Heredia?

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Vina Tondonia
Vina Bosconia
Vina Cubillas
Vina Zaconia

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30
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How long does the Vina Tondonia from Lopez de Heredia stay in Oak before release?

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10 Years

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Who designed the estate of Marques de Riscal? What else did he design?

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Frank Gehry

The Guggenheim in Bilbao

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Who designed the new addition to Lopez de Heredia’s estate?

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Zaha Hadid

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When was single vineyard bottling allowed as an additional designation for Rioja?

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2017

Vinedos Singulares may appear from 2018 onward

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34
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What are the regulations for Vinedos Singulares in Rioja?

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35 Year old Vines
Estate must have worked it for 10 years
Hand Harvesting
20 Liters per hectare less than the region allows

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35
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What is Vino Espumosa de Calidad

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Traditional method sparkling wine from Rioja

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36
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What are the styles allowed for Vino Espumosa? (sweetness)

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Brut Nature, Extra Brut, and Brut

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37
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What are the requirements for Vino Espumosa’s aging designations? Other requirements?

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15 months on lees for Regular

Reserva: 24 months

Gran Reserva: 36 Months

Handharvested, estate bottles

38
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When was Lopez de Heredia started?

39
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What cooperage does Lopez de Heredia use?

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They have their own

40
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Who opened Lopez de Heredia?

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Don Rafael Lopez de Heredia y Landeta

41
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Where is Lopez de Heredia located?

42
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When was La Rioja Alta started?

43
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What are the Top bottlings of La Rioja Alta?

A

Gran Reserva 890
Gran Reserva 904
Vina Ardanza

44
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Where is Vega Sicilia located? When was it founded?

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Valladolid

1864

45
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Who opened Vega Sicilia? Who now owns it?

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Don Eloy Lecanda Chaves

The Alvarez Family since 1982

46
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What are the top bottlings of Vega Sicilia?

A

Unico
Valbueno no.5
Alion
Pintia

47
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Where is Bodegas Muga? Who opened it and when?

A

Haro
1932
Isaac Muga Martinez

48
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What are the top bottlings of Bodegas Muga?

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Prado Enea

Torre Muga

49
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What famous Ribera del Duero producer is Biodynamic?

A

Dominio de Pingus

50
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What are the top bottlings of Bodegas Marques de Murrieta?

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Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial

Capellania Reserva

51
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What is Dalmau?

A

A Marques de Murrieta bottling with Cabernet Sauvignon blended with Tempranillo

52
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What does CVNE stand for ?

A

Compania Vinicola del Norte de Espana

53
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What are the wineries of CVNE?

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Imperial
Vina Real
Contino

54
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What is the CVNE Monopole white?

A

a 100% Viura wine first bottled in 1915

55
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What is the top bottling for Bodegas Remelluri

A

La Granja Remelluri Gran Reserva

56
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Where is Bodegas Remelluri located?

57
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What vintages was Bodegas Remelluri’s best wine made in?

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1996
1997
2005
2009
2010
2011
2012
58
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When was Bodegas Remelluri first opened and by who?

A

Jaime Rodriguez Salis

1967

59
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Which Rioja house left the Consejo Reguladores of Rioja in 2015?

60
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What are the three single vineyard wines of Artadi?

A

La Poza de Ballesteros
El Carretil
Valdegines

61
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What are the two old vines bottlings from Artadi?

A

Pagos Viejo’s

Grandes Anades

62
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What is notable about the Artadi wine making style?

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100% Tempranillo from high elevation vineyards focusing on soil expression.

63
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Where is Bodegas Numanthia located?

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In Zamora, in Toro

64
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What are the Top bottlings of Bodegas Numanthia?

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Numanthia: 70-100 year old ungrafted Tempranillo vines, 18 months french oak, 100% tempranillo

Termanthia: 140 year old Ungrafted Tempranillo vines, 100% Tempranillo from Teso de Los Carriles. 200% new french oak, unfiltered and unfined.

65
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How was Bodegas Roda named? When was it started?

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Mario ROttland and Carmen DAurela combined their names in 1987 to make it.

66
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What are the top bottlings of Roda?

A

Roda I
Roda (formerly Roda II)
and Cirsion

67
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What are the top bottlings of Faustino?

A

Gran Reserva Faustino I

Reserva Faustino V

68
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When was Faustino Established?

69
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When did Faustino Begin exporting its wine?

70
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What Region adjacent to Rioja is famous for Rosado Bottlings?

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Navarra DO

71
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What is the most prominent white variety in Navarra?

A

Chardonnay

72
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What are the 5 Subzones of Navarra DO?

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Valdizarbe
Baja Montana
Tierra Estella
Ribera Alta
Ribera Baja
73
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What three Estates gained DO Pago status in Navarra?

A

Senorio de Arinzano
Prado Irache
(Both in Tierra Estella)

Bodegas Otazu
(in Valdizarbe)

74
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What is Vino de Licor made from?

A

Moscatel Grapes, with a 15% alcohol

75
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When was Marques de Riscal founded? Where?

A

1858 in Elciego

76
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What is the top wine of Marques de Riscal?

A

Baron de Chirel

77
Q

What are the 4 Subregions of Aragon?

A

Catalayud
Campo de Borja
Carinena
Somontano

78
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What is the most planted grape in Campo de Borja?

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Garnacha (2/3rds of all plantings)

79
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What does Somontano mean?

A

Beneath the mountain

80
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What is the ancestral home of the Carignan/Mazuelo Grape?

A

Carinena DO

81
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What are the main local varietals of Somontano DO?

A

Alcanon

Paralleta

82
Q

What Autonomia’s generally belong in the Green Spain region?

A

Galicia
Asturias
Cantabria
Pais Vasco

83
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What is a Rias?

A

An estuary

84
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What are the 5 DO’s of Galicia?

A 
Rias Baixas
Ribiero
Valdeorras
Ribeira Sacra
Monterrei
85
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What are the 5 Subzones of Rias Baixas?

A 
Condado de Tea
Val do Salnes
O Rosal
Soutomaior
Ribeiro do Ulla
86
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If a wine is labelled Rias Baixas Albarino, how much of the wine must be Albarino?

87
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If a wine is from Val do Salnes or Ribeiro do Ulla, what are the grapes in it?

A

A minimum 70% must be Albarino, Treixadura, Loureiro, or Caino Blanco

88
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If a wine is from O Rosal or Condado do Tea, what is the blend?

A

A minimum of 70% Albarino blended with Loureiro or Treixadura

89
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How much of Rias Baixas is dedicated to Albarino?

90
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What are the Red grapes of Rias Baixas?

A

Caino, Espadeiro, Mencia

91
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What are the grapes preferred for the region of Ribeiro/ What river is it along?

A

Mino River

White from Treixadura
Red from Caino

92
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What is the local specialty wine of Ribeiro DO? Describe it.

A

Vino Tostado, made from dried grapes, with a minimum of 350g/l must weight and a final sugar of 120g/l. Must be dried three months, with 6 months in oak and three months in bottle.

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