Wine tasting course

Monastrell

• Other names: morastel, moristel, monastel, valcarcelia, ministral, alcayata, ros, churret, garrut, mataró, negrelejo, reina, vermeta.
• Area: Alicante, Murcia, Penedès, Valencia, Lower Rioja and Aragón.
• Varietal features: vigorous. Medium, not very tight bunch. Small, round grape with firm skin.
• Environment: adapts to most soils.
• Cultivation: does web with stock 161-49. Short pruning, although in fertile soils produces better with long pruning.
• Production: medium output.
• Wine: reds with colour and body. Good alcoholic strength.