SHERRY - Growing environment and Grape growing - Grape Varieties
3 important questions on SHERRY - Growing environment and Grape growing - Grape Varieties
What do you know about the Palomino grape variety
- = Palomino Fino = Listán
- principal variety used in sherry
- used in dry and sweetened styles
- almost 99% of production by volume
- mid-late ripening
- well-suited to dry, sunny weather
- capable of producing large yields
- loses acidity quickly when it nears maturity
- neutral > does not add much primary aroma's to the sherry wines
What do you know about the Moscatel grape variety
- = Muscat of Alexandria
- = sometimes called Moscatel de Chipiona after coastal town of Chipiona around which it is mainly grown, mainly on arenas soils
- less than 1% of production by volume
- late-ripening
- well-adapted to heat and drought
- aromatic variety (grape, blossom)
- generally used to produce sweet fortified (Moscatel) wines
What do you know about the Pedro Ximénez grape variety
- = PX
- used for
- production of sweet fortified wines (PX-Pedro Ximénez)
- as a sweetening agent
- small, thin-skinned grapes
- accumulates hight levels of sugar
- traditionally dried in the sun for further sugar concentration
- neutral > flavours from drying and maturation process
- for the DO's it to be grown in the Montilla district
- may be shipped into the Zona de Producción as
- fresh grapes
- raisened grapes
- young wine (most likely)
- less than 1% of production by volume
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