DO TERRA ALTA

Zone of production

Tarragona:Arnes, Batea, Bot, Caseres, Corbera dÕebre, El Pinell de Brai, Gandesa, Horta de Sant Joan, La Fatarella, La Pobla de Massaluca, Prat de Comte, Vilalba dels Arcs

Climate

The climate is Mediterranean with continental influences. High hours of sunstroke and an annual pluviometría that patrols between 350 and 500 mm according to the zone of the region. The paper of the dominant winds is fundamental in the viticulture of the High Terra. The Cerç - cold north wind - blows strongly and supports the grapevines and the grapes in ripeness you recover; whereas the Garbi and others marinaded proceeding from the Mediterranean refresh the hot summer.

Stained Varieties

Authorized: Tempranillo, Cabernet franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Robe tintorera, Syrah.

Preferential: Robe dyes, shaggy Robe, Samsó, mazuela or carignan

White Varieties

Authorized: white Sauvignon, Muscatel of small grain or of Frontignan, Muscatel of big grain or of Alexandria, white Chenin, Pedro Ximénez, Chardonnay.

Preferential: white Robe, Macabeo, Parellada.

Types of wine

• Mellow Wine High Terra. white robe wine from traditional liquor from the varieties and macabeo or robe dyes, that will have to have wealth in azúcares not lower than 14 º Baumé and to have to be in mint condition sanitary. The production of the wine endures an aging oxidativo to the Sun and serenade, and a minimum of one year in packing of oak. The mellow wines, to be commercialized by the name of upbringing, will have to have four years of aging, of which a minimum of three they will have to be in packing of oak. During the production it will be possible add, if it is precise, the wine alcohol of quality to reach a graduation between 15% vol and 20% vol.The color typical of the wine is of old gold.
• white Mistela High Terra. the production of the wine of traditional liquor called white mistela will carry out from all the varieties of white grapes and that in his production the must separates flower of the grape and immediately afterwards the wine filters, with an alcoholic volumetric degree minimal native of 14% vol, to add forthwith wine alcohol and to proceed to remove it once a day for one week up to obtaining an alcoholic volumetric acquired minimal degree of 15% vol and between 8,5 and 10 º Baumé.
• stained Mistela High Terra. The production of the wine of traditional liquor called stained mistela will carry out from the stained authorized varieties, that they will have to have an alcoholic volumetric degree of 14 º Baumé. The speechless grape softens, with the previous separation of the escobajo, with a mixture of wine alcohol, and airea two times a day for fifteen days to make the yeasts inactive. Ended the maceration the solid ones separate with a press up to reaching an alcoholic volumetric acquired degree equal or superior to 15% vol and between 8,5 and 10 º Baumé.
• robe Wine High Terra. Wine from traditional liquor elaborated with grapes sobremaduradas. After separating the escobajo and flattened, the pasta ferments until acquires an alcoholic volumetric degree minimal native of 14% vol. Immediately afterwards it is bled, presses, filters and is headed by wine alcohol up to coming to a minimum of 14% vol and an alcoholic volumetric acquired and maximum degree of 20% vol. It ages in botaes of wood of oak.
• sweet natural Wine of High Terra. Wine of traditional liquor that comes from musts of high wealth in azúcares, superior to 250 g/l, fermented partially.His alcoholic volumetric natural graduation is like a minimum of 14% vol and an alcoholic volumetric acquired minimal degree of 15% vol and maximum of 20% vol.
• frothy Wine of quality produced in region determined in Tierra Alta. wine obtained from the authorized varieties, with a volumetric degree minimal native of 11%, elaborated according to the traditional method with the second fermentation in the bottle, which in certain conditions detaches carbonic anhydride with a minimal pressure of 3,5 bar.
• Wine de aguja Tierra Alta. The wine obtained of the authorized varieties, with an alcoholic volumetric degree minimal native of 11%, elaborated according to his procedure, who in certain conditions detaches carbonic anhydride in dissolution neither with a pressure not lower than 1 bar nor Superior to 2,5 bar.

Regulatory Advice

Regulatory Advice of the D.O. " TERRA ALTA "

Avda. Cataluña, 31

43780 - Gandesa

Tarragona - Spain

Tel.: 977 421 278 - Fax: 977 421 278

http://www.doterraalta.com/