Wines made from Tempranillo grapes of California
Discover the best wines made with Tempranillo as a single variety or as a blend of California.
More informations about the variety Tempranillo
The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
More informations about the region of California
California is the largest and most important wine region in the United States. It represents the southern two-thirds (850 miles or 1,370 kilometers) of the country's west coast. (Oregon and Washington make up the rest. ) The state also spans nearly 10 degrees of latitude.
What are the typical flavors of the Tempranillo grape variety?
- Red fruitPresent in 44% of Tempranillo
- OakPresent in 42% of Tempranillo
- Black fruitPresent in 32% of Tempranillo
- SpicesPresent in 32% of Tempranillo
- Non oakPresent in 30% of Tempranillo
- EarthPresent in 29% of Tempranillo
- MicrobioPresent in 15% of Tempranillo
- Dried fruitPresent in 13% of Tempranillo
- Tree fruitPresent in 6% of Tempranillo
- Citrus fruitPresent in 5% of Tempranillo
- VegetalPresent in 4% of Tempranillo
- FloralPresent in 4% of Tempranillo
- FigPresent in 2% of Tempranillo
- ClovePresent in 2% of Tempranillo
- CassisPresent in 2% of Tempranillo
- CinnamonPresent in 2% of Tempranillo
- CreamPresent in 2% of Tempranillo
- Dark fruitPresent in 2% of Tempranillo
- CherryPresent in 2% of Tempranillo
- MochaPresent in 2% of Tempranillo
News about the grape variety Tempranillo
Abadía Retuerta, Spain’s newest Vino de Pago
For those unfamiliar with the Vino de Pago qualification, it was created in Spain in 2003 to certify singular estates (pagos) as Protected Denominations of Origin. While not a requisite, it’s generally implemented by individual wineries looking to gain protected status for a single vineyard site within their domain. This is the case for Abadía Retuerta which is an estate of 700ha, of which 180ha is planted to vine. While located within the Duero Valley, the site resides within the borders of Sar ...
Duero’s Dehesa Peñalba vinery awarded single estate denomination
Bodegas Vizar is located in the municipality of Villabáñez, to the east of Valladolid is Spain’s Castile and León region, bordering the Ribera del Duero DO. Vizar’s application to obtain the Dehesa Peñalba vino de pago DO was first put forward to, and approved by the Agrarian and Technological Institute of Castilla y León (ITACyL), in 2019. The proposal was then submitted to the European Commission, which granted the final green light earlier this month. ‘We started the process in 2015 and ...
Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...