• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Before Header

EnglishEspañol
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

EN - El vino de las piedras

Descubre la Denominación de Origen Protegida Cariñena, donde hacemos "El Vino de las Piedras". Los viticultores de Cariñena cuidan y miman cada viña como si fuera única. El resultado de este duro y constante esfuerzo es un vino incomparable.

  • El vino que nace de las piedras
    • Identity Sign
    • Previous Campaigns
      • Near you (2020)
      • Festival of the Stones (2019)
      • Surprises in the restaurant (2018-2017)
      • Discover the surprises (2016)
      • Wine lounge (2012-2015)
      • Summer Route
      • Narrative collection
      • Tourism Route
  • D.O. Cariñena
    • Wineries
    • Certification documentation
      • Certification documentation
      • Registered warehouse DOP Cariñena certification
      • Registered warehouse varietal wines certification
    • Viticulture
      • Production area
        • Location
        • Climatology
        • Edaphology
      • Varieties
      • Vintage chart
    • Types of wine
      • Wines
      • Production and aging
      • Analytical characteristics
      • Elaboration of the different types of wine
    • Towns
    • History
    • 90º Aniversario
  • Regulating council
    • Functions
    • Budget 2023
    • Scope statement
    • Regulation
    • Statutes
    • Sustainability
    • Legislation
      • Wine sector code
      • General wine legislation
        • Previous legislation Regulating Council
        • Sector legislation
    • Grape harvest regulations
    • Transparency
  • Wine museum
  • Communication
    • News
    • Press dossier
    • Photo gallery
    • Video
    • Logotype
    • Contact us
  • Search
  • El vino que nace de las piedras
    • Identity Sign
    • Previous Campaigns
      • Near you (2020)
      • Festival of the Stones (2019)
      • Surprises in the restaurant (2018-2017)
      • Discover the surprises (2016)
      • Wine lounge (2012-2015)
      • Summer Route
      • Narrative collection
      • Tourism Route
  • D.O. Cariñena
    • Wineries
    • Certification documentation
      • Certification documentation
      • Registered warehouse DOP Cariñena certification
      • Registered warehouse varietal wines certification
    • Viticulture
      • Production area
        • Location
        • Climatology
        • Edaphology
      • Varieties
      • Vintage chart
    • Types of wine
      • Wines
      • Production and aging
      • Analytical characteristics
      • Elaboration of the different types of wine
    • Towns
    • History
    • 90º Aniversario
  • Regulating council
    • Functions
    • Budget 2023
    • Scope statement
    • Regulation
    • Statutes
    • Sustainability
    • Legislation
      • Wine sector code
      • General wine legislation
        • Previous legislation Regulating Council
        • Sector legislation
    • Grape harvest regulations
    • Transparency
  • Wine museum
  • Communication
    • News
    • Press dossier
    • Photo gallery
    • Video
    • Logotype
    • Contact us
  • Search
You are here: Home / D.O.P. Cariñena / Types of wine / Elaboration of the different types of wine

Elaboration of the different types of wine

Liqueur wines must comply with the following requirements:

  • They must be exclusively produced with varieties such as Moscatel de Alejandría, Macabeo and Garnacha Tinta whose grapes, during the harvesting process, have a natural alcoholic strength not less than 12%.
  • The actual alcoholic strength by volume may not be lower than 15% or greater than 22%.
  • EThis chart below shows the maximums and minimums of total sulphur dioxide content in liqueur wines which must not be exceeded:
    Maximum Total Sulphur Dioxide ( gr./l.)
    <5gr./l. sugar content >=5gr./l. sugar content
    150 200
  • The terms “sweet wines” or “mistela” can be mentioned in liqueur wines made from grape must or from a mix of grape must with wine.

“Naturally sweet wines” must be prepared using overripe grapes with alcohol obtained exclusively from fermentation without the addition of any artificial alcohol. The natural alcoholic strength must not be higher than 15% or lower than 13% vol.

Sparkling wines must have their own winemaking and ageing process, from the second fermentation until a progressive elimination of dregs, in the same bottle in which the tirage took place, and must comply with the following requirements:

  • The tirage will be made between January 1 and April 30 of the year after the harvest and must comply with everything stated in Annex VI, letter K, point 5 of Regulations (CE) no. 1493/1999 of the Council, May 7, 1999, establishing the common market organization in wine or standard which can replace it.
  • The cuvée used has to be an endorsed wine, with a maximum total sulphur dioxide concentration of 140 ml.
  • The time period from tirage until disgorging will be at least 9 months.
  • Only this wine can be used for the purpose of filling the bottle during the disgorging period.
  • Its classification will be done no later than 3 months after the disgorging process.
    • Sparkling wines shall have the following physical-chemical parameters:
    • Minimum alcohol content acquired: 10% Vol.
    • Maximum total sulphur dioxide: 160 mg/l.
    • Real acid-volatile acidity expressed as acetic acid (maximum): 0,65 gr/l.

In order to describe wines mentioned in this standard and which contain a natural alcohol content higher than 15% vol. the term “late harvesting” can be used for this purpose. In addition to complying with Community legislation, it must comply with the following physical-chemical features:

  • The minimum alcohol content: 13 %Vol.
  • Real acid-volatile acidity expressed as acetic acid (maximum): 0,9 g/l.

Primary Sidebar

  • Wines
  • Production and aging
  • Analytical characteristics
  • Elaboration of the different types of wine

Últimas noticias

  • La D.O.P. Cariñena cierra una vendimia «Excelente», con casi 92 millones de kilos de uva, un 60,5% más que el pasado año
  • “La complejidad de la D.O.P. Cariñena, con seis grandes tipos de suelos, produce unos vinos originales y con personalidad
  • LA D.O.P. Cariñena homenajea a las víctima de la covid-19 en su Fiesta de la Vendimia más triste y breve de la historia

Footer

  • El vino que nace de las piedras
    • Identity Sign
    • Previous Campaigns
      • Near you (2020)
      • Festival of the Stones (2019)
      • Surprises in the restaurant (2018-2017)
      • Discover the surprises (2016)
      • Wine lounge (2012-2015)
      • Summer Route
      • Narrative collection
      • Tourism Route
  • D.O. Cariñena
    • Wineries
    • Certification documentation
      • Certification documentation
      • Registered warehouse DOP Cariñena certification
      • Registered warehouse varietal wines certification
    • Viticulture
      • Production area
        • Location
        • Climatology
        • Edaphology
      • Varieties
      • Vintage chart
    • Types of wine
      • Wines
      • Production and aging
      • Analytical characteristics
      • Elaboration of the different types of wine
    • Towns
    • History
    • 90º Aniversario
  • Regulating council
    • Functions
    • Budget 2023
    • Scope statement
    • Regulation
    • Statutes
    • Sustainability
    • Legislation
      • Wine sector code
      • General wine legislation
        • Previous legislation Regulating Council
        • Sector legislation
    • Grape harvest regulations
    • Transparency
  • Wine museum
  • Communication
    • News
    • Press dossier
    • Photo gallery
    • Video
    • Logotype
    • Contact us
  • Search

Camino de la Platera, nº 7, 50400 Cariñena (Zaragoza)
Teléfono: 976 79 30 31

Site Footer

Logotipo DOP Cariñena
Logotipo Ruta del Vino Campo de Cariñena
Logotipo Movimiento Vino DO
  • Contact us
  • Legal Notice
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies Policy
  • Sitemap

C.R. de la D.O.P. Cariñena Copyright 2020 © 2023 | Uup marketing digital