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Priorat to get new 'village' category
June 19, 2009
Kathryn McWhirter
The Consejo Regulador del Priorato has given provisional approval to a new category of 'Village Wines' within the DOCa Priorato.
Details are due to be finalised and the the rubber stamp applied within the next few weeks, according to the Consejo.
Growers in twelve villages in this mountainous region west of Barcelona will qualify to label their wines as 'Vino de Pueblo' – Vi de Vila in Catalan.
Labels will bear the individual village names – such as Gratallops, Poboleda and Porrera – as a sub-category of DOCa Priorato. A new wine map redefining village boundaries has been drawn up by the Consejo Regulador.
Village wines will have to be made from a producer's own vineyards, not from bought-in grapes.
For civic administrative purposes, Priorato had long been divided into village segments that bore little relation to the terrain and characteristics of wines produced there.
Álvaro Palacios, one of the pioneers of fine wine in Priorato in the 1980s, intends to launch his first Vino de Pueblo, 2007 Gratallops, at the end of the summer.
'When this whole area was planted with vines, before the Civil War, everyone used to talk of wines here in Priorato in terms of their village of origin,' he said.
'With this new map we've re-established the typicity of each village. You have to localise things, especially in such an area where you have so many small individual vineyards.'
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So......When is Ribera del Duero and Xeres going to get their long-deserved DOCa?
Scott Cameron, LA
To Scott: Neither Ribera del Duero nor Jerez will get a DOCa status independently how much they deserve it. The new pan-European appellation system, in force from August 1st 2009 (reform due to be brought to an end in 2014) previews only 3 levels: wine, wine with Protected geographical indication (PGI, ex-vino de la tierra in Spain) and wine with Protected denomination of origin (PDO - ex DO & DOCa & Pago & Vi de Vila etc.).
Bisso Atanassov, Moscow, Russia
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