🍇 Xarel·lo
White wine grape from Spain; parents Heben × Brustiano Faux; 25 synonyms in VIVC.
Xarel·lo is a white wine grape from Spain.
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Heben and Brustiano Faux.
According to VIVC, it covered 8,043 ha in Spain (2008). Samples of the variety are kept in 10 collections. The variety is registered in the European catalogue of varieties.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 25 synonyms for it, among them Cartoixa, Cartuja and Cartuxa, so the same grape can turn up under other names. If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.
How it connects to Wine
🍇 Xarel·lo → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Origin
- 🗺️ Spanish wine
- Where it grows
- 📍 Penedès, 📍 Catalonia
- Main grape in
- 📜 Alella, 📍 Penedès
- Wines made from it
- 🍷 Cava
- Related to
- 🍷 Cava, 🍷 Sparkling wine
- Parents
- 🍇 Hebén, 🍇 Brustiano Faux
- Similar and different
- 🍇 Macabeo
Frequently asked questions
Where does Xarel·lo come from?
According to VIVC, from Spain.
What are the parents of Xarel·lo?
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Heben and Brustiano Faux.
Under what other names is Xarel·lo known?
VIVC lists 25 synonyms for it, among them Cartoixa, Cartuja and Cartuxa, so the same grape can turn up under other names.
What to read next
- 🗺️ Spanish wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes and appellations.
- 🍷 Cava — Spanish quality sparkling wine (PDO) made by the traditional method in four zones of Spain.
- 📍 Penedès — The heart of cava production, west of Barcelona.
- 🍇 Macabeo — A white grape of Spain, also called Viura: 46,000 ha, 4.7 % of the country's vineyards (2015); one of the main grapes of sparkling Cava.
- 🍷 Sparkling wine — Four EU categories with at least 3 bar of carbon dioxide; traditional, tank and ancestral methods; Champagne, Cava, Prosecco.
Similar
🍇 Parellada · 🍇 Macabeo · 🍇 Trepat · 🍇 Sumoll · 🍇 Mandó · 🍇 Escanyavella
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Xarello
- VIVC: area statistics XARELLO
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)
- Wikidata