VALENCIA

BOBAL – King of Valencia and its surrounds

REGIONAL VINEYARD:

TOTAL Vineyard Size

69,000 hectares amounts to a significant production

Dedicated to Quality

This area is dedicated to the quality of principally 1 native grape – BOBAL

NOTABLE CRU/ZONES:

Valencia

15,000 ha

Utiel Requena

40,000 ha

Manchuela

4,000 ha

Ribera del Jùcar

10,000 ha

WINE STYLE/QUALITY:

% RED

As a general idea it’s +80% and in the case of Utiel Requena it’s +95%

% WHITE

Not much to write about but if you find something special let us know.

% DOP / IGP

Good quality to be found.

VALENCIA – 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

BOBAL

NATIVE WHITES

As yet, nothing listed :(

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

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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