Wine labels and law Flashcards
EU requirements
1 Quality: PDO, IGT, VT or DOCa, DOQ, DO, VC, VPCa, VPQ, VP 2 Name of area: Region or appellation 3 Alcohol strength 4 Country of Origin 5 Name of bottler/producer 6 Volume (metric)
For sparkling - sugar content
Optional
7 Wine name
8 Vintage year
9 Ageing classification
10 Wine varieties
Optional
What were the reasons that co-operatives play a big role in Spain
Tried to increase production and lower costs
When was the decree that defined the origin of Rioja wine
1902 Royal Decree
When was the firs tConsejo Regulador created
1926 - for Rioja
How may areas were included in the wine statute of 1932
19
How long did the wine stature of 1932 remain in place?
38 years - to 1970
Who oversees the CRs
Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture
DOP -OCW
DOP, or Denominación de Origen Protegida, previously known as do (which was still widely used in 2014), the mainstay of Spain’s wine quality control system and equivalent to pdo. The eu’s denomination reforms implemented in Spain in 2010 are followed by some of the more recent Spanish appellations, but both DO and DOP are permitted on labels.
5 quality wine designations under DOP
Each region awarded DO/DOP status is governed by a consejo regulador made up of representatives of the regional government (or the Ministry of Agriculture in the three multiregional appellations Rioja, Jumilla, and Cava), vine-growers, winemakers, and merchants who earn their livelihoods in the region. These regional governments decide on the boundaries of the region, permitted vine varieties, maximum yields, limits of alcoholic strength, and any other limitations pertaining to the zone. Back labels or neck seals are granted by the Consejo to certify that a wine meets the standards laid out in the DOP regulations.
DOCa
Region must have had DO status for at least 10 years
Wine produced and bottled in region
Must cost at least double the national average for DO
DOCa, Denominación de Origen Calificada, is the highest Spanish wine quality denomination, the elite of do/dop, reserved for regions complying with certain conditions including above-average grape prices, and particularly stringent quality controls. rioja was the first Spanish region to be awarded DOCa status, in 1991, followed by priorat in 2000.
DO
stands for Denominación de Origen, the name of Spain’s pdo denomination
Restrictions on
Grapes
Production levels
Winemaking methods
Aging
Must have been a quality wine area for over 5 years
VC
Vino de Calidad (con indicación geográfica), transitory Spanish denomination between vino de la tierra/IGP and dop/DO, of which there were seven in 2014. It identified wines ‘produced and vinified in a specific area or place, with grapes of the same origin’ with some degree of recognition and quality. Eventually this denomination is to be merged, with do, into DOP.
Must be a quality wine region for 5 years before promotion to DO
Vino de Pago
Vino de Pago — special Spanish category of supposedly exceptionally high-quality, single-estate wines, granted their own appellation. By 2019 there were 19, arguably too many. Highly esteemed estate Unique soil or climate Produced and bottled on estate Representative of area
Grandes Pago de Espagna
Voluntary organisation of 30 wineries
Vino de la Tierra
Min abv
85% grapes must be from local region
local identifiable characteristics
42 VTs
wines from legally designated zones in spain which have not qualified for dop status. With changes to eu denominations (see pgi), this category is now known as IGP or Indicación Geográfica Protegida, a term which can also be found on Spanish labels and which may eventually replace it.
Vino de Mesa
the old Spanish term for table wine, the most basic category of wine now known as wine without geographical indication.
Can be used for making distinctive wines without local restrictions
