CASTILLA Y LEON

A LAND WHERE REDS & WHITES GO HAND IN HAND

Regional Vineyard:

Total Vineyard Size:

39,790 hectares is the total regional vineyard including vineyards producing for Quality wines, Table wines & Table grapes

Dedicated to Quality

With six of Spain’s DO classified winemaking zones, this region is very much dedicated to quality.

Notable Cru/Zones

Cigales

Toro

Rueda

Ribera del Duero

Valladolid

Tierra Zamora

WINE STYLE/QUALITY:

% Red

50%

% White

50%

% DOP / IGP

CASTILLA Y LEON – NATIVE GRAPES

As always, based on our research, we’ve listed those grapes which we understand are available as mono-varietals or which are important blenders. Naturally, as we make further discovery, we’ll update these lists.

NATIVE REDS

JUAN GARCIA

MENCIA

PRIETO PICUDO

NATIVE WHITES

ALBILLO REAL

VERDEJO

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 :)

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