MOST COMMON RED COSMOPOLITAN VARIETIES
Cabernet Sauvignon
- Other names: vidure, vindure, bouchet, red Bordeaux.
- Area: especially Penedès and Costers del Segre.
- Varietal features: very vigorous. Small bunch. Round grape with very firm skin.
- Environment: adapts to most soils including poor ones.
- Cultivation: does web with most stocks. Long Guyot pruning.
- Production: small yield.
- Wine: excellent quality, good strength and colour. Astringent when young and fine after ageing.