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Producer profile 3.0 Flashcards

Spain

1
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What are the 4 wines of the CVNE?

Precise the only one produce as white?

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  • Viña Real: grapes are sourced from the Rioja Alavesa region
  • Imperial: Sourced from the 28 Ha estate in the Rioja Alta region
  • Contino: Started as a join project in 1973 - 62 Ha of vine in Rioja Alavesa
  • Monopole: 100% Viura grapes / oldest white wine brand in Spain: inaugural vintage: 1915
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What does mean CVNE?

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Compañia Vinicola del Norte de España

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Who’s the producer of the following wine?

Monopole

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  • CVNE
  • 100% Viura
  • First white wine brand in Spain: first produced in 1915
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Who’s the producer of the following wine:

Imperial

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  • CVNE
  • Grapes sourced from a 28 Ha vineyard within the Rioja Alta sub-region
  • Blend of Tempranillo + Graciano, Manuela from low yielding vines
  • Aged in American oaks
  • First produced on the 1920’s
  • Only produced in best vintages
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Who’s the producer of the following wine:

Contino

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  • CVNE
  • First produced in 1973 as a joint project
  • 62 Ha estate of the Rioja Alavesa
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Who’s producing the following wine:

Viña Real

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  • CVNE
  • Grapes are sourced from the Rioja Alavesa region
  • Established on the 1920’s
  • 95% Tempranillo + Graciano
  • Aged in a mixture of french and American oaks
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7
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What are All 4 wines of Lopez de Heredia?

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  • Viña Tondonia
  • Viña Bosconia
  • Viña Cubillas
  • Viña Gravonia
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When did Bodegas López de Heredia been created?
Where are they based?

A

1877
Haro

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Who’s produced Viña Tondonia?

A

Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
Based in Haro

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Who’s the producer of Viña Bosconia?

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  • Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
  • 15 Ha based in Tempranillo Mazuelo, Garnacha and Graciano
  • Haro
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Who’s the producer of Viña Cubillo?

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  • Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
  • 24 Ha from Viña Cubillas
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Who is the producer of Viña Gravonia?
Where is it sourced?

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  • Bodegas Lopez de Heredia
  • 24 Ha sourced from the Viña Zaconia
  • 100% Viura
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What are the top 3 cuvee of La Rioja Alta

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  • Gran Reserva 890: Tempranillo + Graciano and Mazuelo
  • Gran Reserva 904: Mostly Tempranillo + Graciano
  • Vina Ardanza: 70-80% Tempranillo + 20-30% Ganarcha from the Rioja Oriental
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Producer and location of the following wine

Rioja Gran Reserva 890

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La Rioja Alta

  • Haro
  • The 890 commemorate to the date of the creation of the initial estate in 1890 by Monsieur Vigier
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Producer and location of the following wine

Rioja Gran Reserva 904

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La Rioja Alta

  • Haro
  • Mostly Tempranillo blended with some Graciano
  • Commemorates the 1904 fusion between La Rioja Alta and Ardanza winery
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Producer and location of the following wine

Viña Ardanza

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La Rioja Alta

  • Tempranilo 70-80% + Garnacha
  • Rioja Baja
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17
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Where is Vega Sicilia located?

A

Ribera del Duero DO

Within the Valladolid wine region

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18
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Producer and location of the following wine

Único

A

Vega Sicilia

  • Ribera del Duero
  • Prestige cuvee, base of old Tempranillo vines
  • aged for 10 years in large neutral oak prior to bottle
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Producer and location of the following wine

Valbuena 5°

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Vega Sicilia

  • Ribera del Duero
  • Base of Tempranillo plus a small amount of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon
  • wines are aged for 5 years in wooden vat prior bottling
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What is the last vintage of Valbuena 3°

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1988

  • Ribera del Duero
  • Vega Sicilia
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What is the first vintage of Bodega Alion?
Who’s the producer?

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Vega Sicilia

1991

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In what vintages, Vega Sicilia did not produced any Valbuena and Unico either?

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  • 1963
  • 1971
  • 1993
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23
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Who’s the producer and location of the following wine?

Prado Enea

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Bodegas Muga

  • Rioja DOCG - Haro
  • Inaugural vintage: 1968
  • 80% Tempranillo + Garnacha, Mazuelo, Graciano
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Who’s the producer and location of the following wine:

Torre Muga

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Bodegas Muga

  • Rioja DOCG - Haro
  • 75%Tempranillo + Graciano and Mazuelo
  • second wine of Prado Enea
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25
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What is the prestige cuvee of Tinto Pesquera?

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Janus

  • Ribera del Duero - Valladolid
  • 100% Tempranillo
26
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What are the sisters winery of Tinto Pesquera?

A
  1. Condado de Haza: AKA Chateau de la Ribera - Ribera del Duero
  2. Dehesa la Granja: Zamora
  3. El Vinculo: Castilla La Mancha, since 1999
27
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Who’s the owner on founders of Pesquera winery?

A
  • *Familiar Fernandez Rivera**
  • Ribera del Duero*
28
Q

When did Domingo de Pingus establish the first vineyards?

A

First created in 1995 in Valladolid - Ribera del Duero DO

29
Q

Who’s the producer and location of the following wine:

Amelia

A

Domingo de Pingus

  • 100% Tempranillo
  • Valladolid - Ribera del Duero
  • 100 years old vines
  • First vintage: 2003
30
Q

Where Bodegas Marqués de la Murrieta located?

A

Rioja DOCG
Logroño

31
Q

What is the first white wine in Spain to received 100 point Parker - Wine Advocate?

A
  • Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 1986 from Marques de Murrieta
  • 20+ years of ageing in American wood
  • 97% Viura + Malvasia
32
Q

Who’s the producer and location of the following wine:

Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva

A

Marques de Murrieta

  • Tempranillo + Mazuelo
  • 26 mouth of ageing in wood + 2 years in bottle prior releasing
33
Q

Name the white wine produced by Bodegas Marques de Murrieta?

A

Capellanía

100% Viura planted in 1945

34
Q

What was the first estate of Rioja to do 100% Estate bottling wines

A
  • *Bodegas Remelluri**
  • Rioja - Labastida*
35
Q

Where is Bodegas Remelluri located?

A

Rioja DOCa

  • Labastida
  • Established in 1967
36
Q

Where is Bodegas y Vinedos Artadi located?

A

Rioja DOCa

  • Rioja Alavesa - Laguardia
  • Established in 1985
37
Q

Name the person who created the Bodegas Artadi winery?

When?

A
  1. Juan Carlos Lopez de Lacalle
  2. 1985
38
Q

What was the first winery to leave the Rioja DOCa consortium?

When did it happen?

A

Bodegas Artadi in 2015.

They felt than Rioja on the label was not valuable anymore for their wines, and did not wanted to be compared with other lower quality wine from the region.

39
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What is the inaugural vintage of Artadi Grandes Añadas wine?

A

1994

only produced in exceptional vintages

40
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What are the 3 vineyards bottling wine of Bodegas Artadi?

A
  • La Poza Ballesteros: 100% Tempranillo - Clay-limestone
  • El Carretil: clay-limestone over sandstone rock
  • Valdegines: compacted clay-limestone

All wine are 100% Tempranillo

41
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What is the prestige wine of Bodega Numanthia?

Where is it coming from?

A

Termanthia

  • Toro DO
  • 140 years old ungrafted vines
  • 200% new oak
  • First vintage: 2000
42
Q

Why is Bodega Numanthia so Particular in Spain?

A
  • They have some of the oldest vine of the country, from a 140 years old ungrafted Tempranillo vine.
  • Produced wine in Toro DO
43
Q

When was Bodegas Numanthia been created? By who?
Can you precise the current owner?

A

Established in 1998 by Eguren Family in Toro DO

Since 2008, its runs by LVMH group

44
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Producer and location of the following wine:

Termanthia

A
  • Prestige cuvee of Bodega Numantia
  • First vintage: 2000
  • DO: Toro
  • Produced from ungrafted 140-yers old Tempranillo vines
45
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Name some wineries based in Haro?

A
  • CVNE
  • Bodegas Muga
  • Vina Tondonia
  • Ramon Bilbao
  • Bodega Paternina
  • Bodega Roeda
  • Bodega la Rioja Alta
46
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What are the vintages blended for the lastest released of Vega Sicilia Unico Reserva Especial 2019 edition?

A
  • 2009
  • 2007
  • 2006
47
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Can you mention blended vintage of the previous releasing of Vega Sicilia Unico Reserva Especial?

A
  • 2019 release: 06, 07, 09
  • 2018 release: 05, 06, 07
  • 2017 release: 03, 04, 06
  • 2016 release: 96, 98, 02
48
Q

Where is Bodegas Roda Located?

What are their flagship wines?

A

Rioja Alta

  • RODA I: 100% Tempranillo - Reserva wine only
  • RODA: Mostly Tempranillo + Graciano / Garnacha
  • Cirsion: 100% Tempranillo from hand selected Bunches
49
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Producer, location and first vintage of the following:

RODA I

A
  • Bodegas Roda
  • Rioja Alta
  • 100% Tempranillo
  • released as Reserva only
  • First Vintage: 1992
50
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Name the producer, first vintage and location of the following wine:

RODA

A
  • Bodegas Roda
  • Rioja Alta
  • Mostly Tempranillo + Graciano and Garnacha
  • First vintage: 1992
  • This wine was called RODA II between 1992 and 2001
51
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Name the producer, location and first vintage of the following:

Cirsion

A
  • Bodegas Roda
  • Rioja Alta
  • First vintage: 1998
  • 100% Tempranillo from selected / hand-harvested bunches
52
Q

Who created the AALTO Bodegas y Viñedos?

Where is the winery located?

A
  • Mariano Garcia: Head winemaker of Vega Sicilia from 1968 to 1998
  • Javier Zaccagnini: Head do Spain’s Consejo Regulador
  • Ribiera del Duero DO - Valladolid
53
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Who was the head winemaker of Vega Sicilia from 1968 to 1998?
What project did he created then?

A

Mariano Garcia

AALTO Bodegas y Viñedos is its new project: He wants to created a world class Tempranillo from the Ribera del Duero terroir

54
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What is the prestige cuvee of AALTO Bodegas y Viñedos?

A
  • AALTO PS
  • 100% Tempranillo from 60-100 years old vines
  • Ribera del Duero DO - Valladolid
  • Only produced in exceptional vintages
55
Q

Where is Bodegas Faustino located?

A

Oyón
Rioja Alavesa

Know as th largest exporter winery for Reserva and Gran Reserva wines n Rioja.

56
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Location and prestige cuvee of the following:

Bodegas Marqués de Riscal

A

Rioja Alavesa - Elciego

  • Founded in 1858
  • Holding vineyard: 500 Ha
  • Controled vineyard: over 900 Ha
  • Prestige cuvee: Baron de Chirel - 1986 only produced in exceptional vintages
57
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What is the prestige cuvee of Bodegas Marqués de Riscal

A

Baron de Chirel

  • Based in Rioja Alavesa
  • 80-100 years old vine of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Only produced in exceptional vintages
58
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Location and prestige cuvee of the following:

Finca Allende

A

Rioja Alta - Briones

  • Aurus: Tempranillo based + Graciano
    • First vintage: 1996
  • Calvario: Tempranillo + Graciano
    • First vintage: 1999

Focus in terroir wine and single parcel bottling

59
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Producer and first vintage of the following:

Aurus

A

Finca Allende

  • Rioja Alta
  • 80 years old vine of : 85% Tempranillo + Graciano
  • Single parcel of clay/loam soil
  • Inaugural vintage: 1996
60
Q

Producer and first vintage of the following:

Calvario

A

Finca Allende

  • Rioja Alta
  • Tempranillo + Graciano vines planted in 1945
  • Single south-eastern facing slope vineyard
  • First vintage: 1999

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