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D.O. La Mancha

Introduction | History | Geography | Climate | Viticulture | Viniculture | Wines | Wineries  

Located in the southern Castilian meseta, some 60 km from Madrid, La Mancha is Spain’s largest denomination of origin, occupying 30,700 km² , and accounting for half of the land area of the provinces it encompasses. The vineyards fall in 182 municipalities: 12 in the province of Albacete, 58 in Ciudad Real, 66 in Cuenca and 46 in Toledo, although certain modifications are underway to exclude areas that are not up-to-date on their registration.

The strength of tradition in the area's viticulture reflects a series of intrinsic and natural conditions that favour grape cultivation and wines with well-defined qualities. La Mancha is ideal vineyard country because, although the yield per hectare is not very high, the quality of fruit, the ripening cycle and the health of the vines are extraordinary.

Long gone is the image of La Mancha as an immense plateau of arid lands that produced great quantities of wine with no thought to its quality. Nowadays, they have undoubtedly won their place among the world's more prestigious wines.

La Mancha is also the world's largest wine producing area, with a total of 191,699 hectares of vineyards, a truly remarkable figure that allows the production of a large proportion of all the wine produced in Spain.

Fact file

CRDO address:

Av. Criptana, 73 - Apartado 194

13600 Alcázar de San Juan

Ciudad Real

Spain

DO established

02 July 1976

Last updated

25 February 2008

Telephone

+34-926-541-523

Fax

+34-926-588-040

E-mail

consejo@lamanchado.es

Website

www.lamanchado.es

Vineyards:

Subzones

-

Area under vine

186,942 ha

 

 

Altitude of vineyards

700 m

Soil types

Red-brown sandy clay over limestone and chalk

Principal grapes (w)

Airén

Principal grapes (r)

Cencibel

Permitted grapes (w)

Airén, Viura or Macabeo, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc

Permitted grapes (r)

Cencibel or Tempranillo, Garnacha, Moravia, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah

Experimental grapes (w)

-

Experimental grapes (r)

-

Organic viticulture

5,000 ha

Climate:

Max. summer temp.

45°C

Min. Winter temp.

-15°C

Average rainfall

300-400 mm annually

Average sunshine

3,000 hours annually

Production:

Maximum crop

11,900 kg/ha – 10,500kg/ha

Yield

70%

Equivalent hl/ha

60 hl/ha (white); 75 hl/ha (red)

Production 2005

645.693,37 hl

Production 2006

670,908.87 hl

Production 2007

672,739.79 hl

Wine alcohol content:

White

Min 10% abv, max 14% abv

Pink

Min 10% abv, max 14% abv

Red

Min 11% abv, max 15% abv

Ageing in oak:

Vino Roble

4 months oak

Crianza

6 months oak

Reserva

12 months oak and 24 months in bottle

Gran Reserva

18 months oak and 42 months in bottle

Wineries:

Number of Wineries

370

Total exports - 2005

400,429 hl

Total exports - 2006

410,511 hl

Total exports - 2007

437,419 hl

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