THE WINES OF TERRA ALTA
RECOMMENDED GRAPE VARIETIES
Garnatxa Blanca | Garnatxa Negra | Garnatxa Peluda | Macabeu | Samsó
These five varieties make up 75% of the vines planted in the Terra Alta Designation of Origin
In general, the other classified varieties are mid-season and late-ripening grapes due to the terroir’s features. This means the production area’s winegrowing can be carried out on non-traditional sites.
TYPES OF WINERIES
The Regulatory Council’s Wineries Register includes all the people and companies owning winemaking undertakings which work with protected wines:
- They produce: producer wineries
- They store: wineries which are not producers
- They age: ageing wineries
- They package: packaging and/or bottling wineries
Three out of four registered wineries are engaged in all three key processes of production, ageing and packaging in the value chain, and only a small number of them perform these processes separately or in isolation.
There is another extremely distinctive aspect found in most of the wineries: the ownership of the vineyards. Whether under family ownership or in cooperative associations, this makes it easier to manage wine production.