The ten bodegas sold in the last campaign more than one million bottles with the label Quality Certification Mark
The Minister of Water, Agriculture and Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, Bullas said today that "thanks to the rains of recent days, the harvest scheduled for 2015 could improve predictions of five million kilos of grapes in the area Designation of Origin Bullas ".
Martinez-Cache, this afternoon attended the inauguration of the new president of the Designation of Origin Bullas Protection, Francisco Carreño Sandoval, said that "already started about 40 hectares in the territory of the DO, so hopefully it is true that improvement of the campaign. "
Protected Designation of Origin Bullas covers an area of ​​2,300 hectares of vineyards, and concentrated to about 380 vintners in the municipalities of Bullas, Cehegín, Mula, Ricote, Pliego, Calasparra, Caravaca de la Cruz, Moratalla and Lorca.
"The annual grape production in the area is around 6,500,000 kilos of grapes in a normal campaign, a figure that has nothing to do with the previous year, 2,500,000 kilos, the result of extreme drought," he said Martinez-Cache.
The minister recalled that the Registry of Warehouses of the PDO Bullas has ten registered wineries, which traded last season 1,100,000 bottles of wine with the label of DOP Differentiated Quality Mark Bullas.
Vintage Home
Last week began with vintage white varieties (Macabeo), some Merlot and Cabernet.
Tempranillo also by Aceniche Valley area and a little Syrah.
The geographical area of ​​the PDO Bullas, in the northwest of the region, is a mountainous area with an altitude of between 400 and 900 meters.
Climatic and soil conditions are optimal for the cultivation of quality vineyards and, in particular, for the development of the variety Monastrell basis of this DO, excellently adapted to the environmental conditions and characteristics of fruitiness that gives its wines.
Source: CARM