ALICANTE

MONASTRELL – YES, THEY CAN AND THEY DO!

REGIONAL VINEYARD:

TOTAL VINEYARD SIZE

60,000 hectares including the regions surrounding Alicante itself

Dedicated to Quality

Dedication to one grape – Monastrell

NOTABLE CRU/ZONES:

Alicante

14000 ha

Almansa

7000 ha

Bullas

2260 ha

Jumilla

30,000 ha

Yecla

7200 ha

WINE STYLE/QUALITY:

% RED

80-90%

% WHITE

10-20%

% DOP / IGP

ALICANTE – NATIVE GRAPES

As always, we like 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

Monastrell

native whites

No native whites to mention :(

our statsources

  • Wine Grapes – Robinson, Harding & Vouillamoz
  • The World Atlas of Wine – Johnson & Robinson
  • Il Mondo del Vino – Associazione Italiana Sommelier, Edizione 2012
  • The Brothers ‘Candrian’ – Aron & Martin Candrian @ Espavino – www.espavino.com

VINTAGE INFORMATION

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

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