HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT YET SURPRISINGLY NOT ONE OF TODAYS BIG PLAYERS

Especially when you think of the grapes whose home is reputed to be here!

REGIONAL VINEYARD:

TOTAL VINEYARD SIZE

34,200 hectares is the total regional vineyard including vineyards producing for Quality wines, Table wines & Table grapes

Dedicated to Quality

Somewhat neglected this region is growing in quality.

NOTABLE CRU/ZONES:

Carinena

Calatayud

Campo de Borja

Somontano

4,400 hectares producing mainly international varietal wines. Yet it’s home to 2 natives, Alcanon (White) and Parraleta (Red)

WINE STYLE/QUALITY:

% REDS

Mostly reds in this region.

% Whites

% DOP / IGP:

ARAGON – NATIVE GRAPES

As always, our research encourages us to list those grapes which we understand are available as mono-varietals or which are locally important blenders. Naturally, as we make further discovery, we’ll update these lists.

NATIVE REDS

GARNACHA TINTA

The Spanish together with many international writers are happy to confirm it’s origin is from in and around Aragon. But whatever you do, don’t say that when you’re in Sardegna, especially if they start talking about Cannonau. It seems they might have established that its native home is actually Italian. Stay tuned.

Garnacha Roja

Garmacha Peluda

Mazuelo

Moristel

Romero de Hijar

There is only one winery in Spain producing a mono-varietal – who is it ?

native whites

garnacha blanca

PARELLADA

OUR STATSOURCES:

WINE GRAPES – ROBINSON, HARDING & VOUILLAMOZ
THE WORLD ATLAS OF WINE – JOHNSON & ROBINSON
IL MONDO DEL VINO – ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA SOMMELIER EDIZIONE 2012
THE GUYS @ ESPAVINO – Aron & Martin Candrian – www.espavino.com

VINTAGE INFORMATION

All data is intended to be for indicative purposes only due to the variability from vintage to vintage and source to source. But we do try to keep ourselves ‘reasonably’ updated :)