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D.O. Tarragona

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

Tarragona is one of the largest of Catalonia's wine DOs with the right soils and climate to produce anything from young red, rosé and white wines to others approaching good port in their style and maturity. This was its best-known wine in other centuries.

Today its full-bodied aromatic whites, which make up nearly three-quarters of production, and younger red wines are finding their way on to the market.

This area is also known for making altar wines, which are extensively exported. Falset, one of the area's three subzones until 2001, has now been granted separate regional DO status under the name Montsant and is awaiting national and European ratification.

 

Fact file

CRDO address:

Av. Catalunya, 50

43002 Tarragona

Tarragona

Spain

DO established

22 April 1947

 

 

Telephone

+34-977-217-931

Fax

+34-977-229-102

E-mail

dotarragona@gmail.com

Website

www.dotgn.cat

Vineyards:

Subzones

No

Area under vine

7,262 ha

 

 

Altitude of vineyards

40-450 m

Soil types

From alluvial to loam/limestone/granite, heading inland

Principal grapes (w)

Macabeo, Parellada, Xarel-lo, Chardonnay, Moscatel.

Principal grapes (r)

Ull de Llebre, Cariñena, Garnatxa Negra, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah.

Permitted grapes (w)

-

Permitted grapes (r)

-

Experimental grapes (w)

-

Experimental grapes (r)

-

Organic viticulture

-

Climate:

Max. summer temp.

35°C

Min. winter temp.

3°C

Average rainfall

465 mm annually (Campo); 650 mm (elsewhere) annually

Average sunshine

2,600 hours annually

Production:

Maximum crop

Campo: white 10,000 kg/ha, red 8,500 kg/ha; Elsewhere: 7,500 kg/ha

Yield

70%-75%

Equivalent hl/ha

70, 59, 52 hl/ha

Production 2001 (hl)

-

Production 2002 (hl)

-

Production 2003 (hl)

-

Wine alcohol content:

White

11%-13% abv

Pink

11%-13% abv

Red

11%-13% abv

Other

Clásico min 13.5% abv; rancio min 14% abv

Ageing in oak:

Crianza

6 months oak, 12 months bottle

Reserva

12 months oak, 24 months bottle

Gran Reserva

24 months oak, 36 months bottle

Clásico

12 years in oak vats

Rancio

4 years in oak vats and/or bottle

Wineries:

Number of Wineries

55

Total exports – 2005

27,160 hl

Total exports – 2006

-

Total exports – 2007

20,824 hl

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