Criaderas y Soleras

Traditional term for wine

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 4 January 2021

• Registered name: Criaderas y Soleras
• Register: Traditional terms for wine
• Status: Registered
• Class or category of product: Traditional Term
• Protection type: Traditional Term
• Country of origin: Spain
• Traditional term grapevine product category: Liqueur wine
• Traditional term type: Description of product characteristic
• Traditional term language: Spanish
• Date of registration (UK scheme): 10 March 2021
• Reason for protection: EU agreement

Summary

Liqueur wine of “Jerez-Xérès-Sherry”, “Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda”, “Montilla-Moriles”, “Málaga” and “Condado de Huelva”, that uses scales of generally placed boots of oak superposed, and called “criaderas”, in which the wine of the year gets up on the superior scale of the system and is crossing the different scales or “criaderas” by partial and successive transferences, in the course of a long period, until reaching the last scale or “solera”, where it concludes the aging process.

Published 4 January 2021