101 Flashcards
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The Phoenicians, one of the first great maritime trading cultures. Founded which city in Spain?
The city of Gadir (modern Cádiz) around 1100 BCE and established the value of viticulture and wine as a commodity in Andalucia.
Spanish become renowned for its strength and found its way as a blessing component to?
France and Italy
Christopher Columbus and the Spanish explorers opened up a new world for Spanish trades that benefited from this in?
1492
First Spanish wines to be shipped to the West Indies were mostly in what style?
Rancio
What kind of wines were the first vinous exports to North America?
Sherry
Sherry became very popular with the English market when?
The 15th century
When phylloxera struck France in the 1850s and 1860s how did it affect Spain’s winemaking?
Sudden influx of French winemakers left France to go make wine in Spain
Which Spanish winemakers learned winemaking in Bordeaux and went back to Spain with these new skills during phylloxera?
Marqués de Riscal and Marqués de Murrieta
What did Marqués de Riscal and Marqués de Murrieta learn in Bordeaux?
Barrique aging and estate bottling
What was the significant alteration to the Bordeaux technique that was implanted in Rioja?
Spaniards used American oak instead of French oak based on economic decisions
Many of today’s great traditionalist wineries got their start when?
In the latter half of the 19th century
What were some of the first great traditionalist Rioja wineries?
López de Heredia, La Rioja Alta, Bereceo
When did phylloxera arrive in Rioja?
Dawn of the 20th century
Fascism took hold in Spain under _____ in the late _______
Francisco Franco, 1930s
What did Miguel Torres contribute to Spanish winemaking in the 1960s in Catalonia?
Stainless steel and temperature controlled fermentation.
Many Spanish winegrowing regions were reborn again in which decade?
The latter decades of the 20th century?
Do Spanish wines have to the aging requirements?
No, only of the producer wants to use the term in the label.
