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Celebrated Wine Selection Contest II DO Yecla 2009 (15/05/2009)

The Regulatory Board of Denomination of Origin Yecla was held this morning the second edition of the San Isidro Fair Selection Wine DO Yecla 2009.

55 wines from Yecla bottling wineries participated in the tasting contest.

The jury was composed of ten expert tasters, all from out of town.

The wines were classified into six categories: white, pink, red wood without passing through '07 and '08 crops, red with oak aging of '07 and '08 crops, red with oak aging prior to harvest ' 07 and sweet.

The assessment sessions wines have evolved from 9:00 am in the tasting room of the Regulatory Council of the DO Yecla, under the direction of VadeVino Editorial team, editor of PlanetaVino and Proensa guidance and technical supervision of the Control Board.

You follow the highest standards of tasting contest, with the bottles prepared to ensure the blind tasting, that is, the ignorance on the part of assessors of the identity of the wines involved.

The assessment has used the official tasting notes the International Office of Vine and Wine for international competitions, with a score from 0 to 100 points.

San Isidro Awards Gold, Silver and Bronze are awarded to wines rated best in each category, but with the proviso that the prizes have to overcome 90 points, the minimum is 81 points silver and bronze awards wines with more than 70 points.

The jury may declare any of the categories where there is no wine to reach these minimum qualifications.

You can also declare exaequo awards for qualifications which are substantially the same, a difference of 0.3 points than the average rating given by the tasters.

The award-winning wines in each category were:

Category I.

White

Gold medal:

Silver Medal: Domain Espinal '08 Bodegas Castano

Bronze Medal: Castaño Macabeo, Bodegas Chadornnay brown '08

Category II.

Pink

Gold medal:

Silver Medal: Domain Espinal '08 Bodegas Castano

Bronze medals: Bodegas Castano Monastrell Castano '08

'08 Estio Rosado Bodegas La Purisima

Category III.

Woodfree red '07 and '08 crops

Gold medal:

Silver Medal: Valcorso Syrah '08 Bodegas La Pusísima

Bronze Medal: Valcorso Merlot '08 Bodegas La Purisima

Category IV.

Wood red '07 and '08 crops

Gold medal:

Silver Medals: Homestead Candela Monastrell '07 Lordship of Barahonda

MMM '07 Bodegas Castano Monastrell

Barrel Valcorso '07 Monastrell Bodegas La Purisima

Bronze Medal:

Category V.

Wood red '06 and earlier harvest

Gold medal: Viña Casa next to the Bodegas Castano '06

Silver Medal: Trapia '06 Bodegas La Purisima

Bronze Medal: Dry Cave Bodegas Castano

Category VI.

Sweets

Gold medal: Castaño Monastrell Bodegas Castano sweet '06

Silver Medal: Enesencia '08 Bodegas La Purisima

Bronze Medal: Attempt Bellum Lordship of Barahonda '05

The Regulatory Council of the DO Yecla instituted in 2008 as his contest with the dual aim of raising awareness of the high level they've reached their wines and to encourage bodegas in the same direction.

The winning wines are the tangible evidence of the enormous potential that holds the single name of Spanish origin consisting of a single municipality.

Located northeast of the Region of Murcia, Yecla DO was granted in May 1975.

It has more than 7,000 hectares of vineyards, 95 percent occupied with Monastrell grapes as majority and most characteristic variety, which accounts for 85 percent of the total.

This vineyard is owned by about 1,600 growers.

It produced around twenty-five million kilos of grapes in normal years.

In the DO Yecla serve eleven wineries, of which nine are bottlers.

Marketing sum around ten million liters, eighty percent for export, sold in nearly forty countries.

Tasting Jury

Jury table

President: Juan Miguel Benedito Rodríguez, Mayor of the City Council president Yecla.

Secretary: Pascual Molina Garcia, president of the Regulatory Council of the DO Yecla.

Director: Andrew Proensa, journalist, magazine editor PlanetaVino.

Coordination: Mariajesus Hernández, member of the tasting PlanetaVino magazine.

Tasters

Enrique Calderon, journalist, newspaper Expansion.

Marta Cano, sommelier.

José Luis Casado, journalist, Todovino Guide.

José Ignacio Fernández Andez Fern, head of the Murcia Regional Agricultural Laboratory and head of the Experimental Winery.

Juan Luis Garcia, president of the Association of Sommeliers of Murcia.

Gurucharri Fernando, president of the Spanish Tasters Union.

Pedro Martínez Fernández, sommelier and gold nose 2001.

Proensa Andres, director of the magazine PlanetaVino.

Miguel Angel Rincon, journalist, madridfusión.com .

Fernando Riquelme Ballesteros, president of the Wine Guild of the Kingdom of Monastrell.

The Denomination of Origin Yecla

Established in May 1075, the PDO YECLA is located northeast of the region of Murcia, in the region of the Altiplano.

Its territory coincides with the municipality.

It is the only case of an appellation of origin for wines consist of a single municipality.

Yecla, get the wine of the Phoenicians and the archaeological remains show the considerable importance which reached the wine during the Roman occupation.

Recently discovered the remains of a cellar dating from the s.

I, and there is evidence of the use of it to S.

XV.

Are abundant vineyards are the Arabs when they come to our lands and the s.

XVIII, is considered Mayor Winery producing wines of this area, as the Chronicles of Philip II.

The winemaking tradition has been maintained over the centuries, giving rise to significant sherry industry.

The floors are made of limestone, deep, with good permeability and with a great vocation for vine cultivation and the production of high quality wines.

The climate is continental with Mediterranean influence and low rainfall (less than 300 mm / year).

The vineyard sits on a hilly relief at an altitude of between 400 and 850 meters above sea level.

The production zone of the Denomination of Origin YECLA, covers some 7,200 hectares of vineyards covered were predominant cultivation of red varieties that account for 95 percent of cultivated land.

Monastrell, the main variety and typical of the south-east Spanish, took 85 percent of the total, 10 percent for other varieties, such as, Tempranillo, Garnacha Tinta, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Shiraz, and 5 cent of white varieties, Macabeo, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Airen and Malvasia.

Marketing is at the following rates:

Exports: 80 percent of the total.

The main markets are the USA, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Japan, China, Australia, Singapore, France.

Etc.

National: 20 percent.

It is sold mainly in Murcia, Madrid, Catalonia, Valencia and the Basque Country.

The grapes are harvested in the eleven registered wineries, starting in the first week of September and end in late October.

VINTAGES RATING

1990 B, 1991 B, 1992 B, 1993 B, 1994 B, 1995 MB, 1996 B, 1997 B, 1998 MB, 1999 MB, 2000 EX, 2001 MB, 2002 B, 2003 MB, 2004 MB, 2005 B, 2006 B , 2007 B.

CONTROL BOARD

NAME ORIGIN

YECLA

Email: info@yeclavino.com

Web: www.yeclavino.com

BODEGAS REGISTERED

"La Purisima" Sdad.

Coop.

Ltd.

Pinoso road s / no. Telephone 968 751257

30510 Yecla (Murcia) 795 116 Fax 968

Email: ventas@bodegaslapurisima.com