NAVARRA

From its top quality aged Reds & Rosado’s, no surprise that Navarra is 95% RED.

REGIONAL VINEYARD:

TOTAL VINEYARD SIZE

Today there are 17,000 hectares. To put this in perspective, it was closer to 50,000 ha before the destructive phylloxera laid waste to the regions vineyards.

Dedicated to Quality:

11,500 hectares are dedicatd to DO production. No doubting this regions quality. The majority comes from Tempranillo (37%) with Garnacha taking 2nd place with 25% of the total planted vineyard.

NOTABLE CRU/ZONES:

Baja Montana

Ribera Alta

Ribera Baja

Tierra Estella

Valdizarbe

WINE STYLE/QUALITY:

% RED

95% (70% Red + 25% Rosado)

% White

5% – some white Spanish varieties are grown but principally international varieties like Chardonnay.

% DOP / IGP

With Crianza, Reserva & Gran Reserva Reds all available, no shortage of DOP quality.

NAVARRA – 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

GARNACHA TINTA

There’s a lot in its favour, no doubt. Yet it seems the Jury might be about to be called out on whether this is infact the native home of Garnacha. In the meantime, let’s run with it.

Tempranillo

It’s a close call with RIOJA about Native bragging rights. Go with whichever you feel comfortable with, which could of course be both :)

NATIVE WHITES

Not a lot to see here folks :(

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
  • Navarra Wine – www.navarrawine.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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