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Tarragona DO

Tarragona DO Wine Area Map
Tarragona DO Temperature, Rainfall and Sunshine

Tarragona is one of the largest of Catalonia's wine DOs with the right soils and climate to produce anything from young red, rosé and white wines to others approaching good port in their style and maturity. This was its best-known wine in other centuries.

Currently the production area extends through 73 municipalities located mainly in the regions of Camp de Tarragona and part of the Ribera d´Ebre.

Today its full-bodied aromatic whites, which make up nearly three-quarters of production, and younger red wines are finding their way on to the market.
 

Regulatory Council

Consejo Regulador DO Tarragona
Av. Catalunya, 50
43002 Tarragona
Tarragona
Tel.: +34 977 217 931
info@dotarragona.cat
www.dotarragona.cat

Sources

Spanish Ministry of Agriculture

Regulatory Council, Tarragona PDO

 

In this DO the whites wines make up nearly three-quarters of its production.

Tarragona DO Consejo Regulador De La Denominacion De Origen
Tarragona DO Vineyards and Production
Vineyards
Area under vine

4,560 ha.

Altitude of vineyards

40-450 m.

Soil types

From alluvial to loam/limestone/granite, heading inland.

Principal grapes (w)

Macabeo, Parellada, Xarel-lo, Chardonnay and Moscatel.

Principal grapes (r)

Ull de Llebre (Tempranillo), Cariñena, Garnatxa Negra, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah.

Production
Maximum crop

Campo: white 10,000 kg/ha, red 8,500 kg/ha; Elsewhere: 7,500 kg/ha

Yield

70-75 %

Production 2013

22,600 hl

Production 2014

17,563 hl

Production 2015

18,375 hl