The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, today together with the President of the Council of the Designation of Origin Bullas, Francisco Carreño, and the mayor of the municipality, Pedro Chico, the VI sample Bullas the PDO, which will be held on 4 and 5 March, and involving 34 new samples of wines.
The owner of Agriculture and Water Sample considered as an "important way of promoting" new proposals for wines made by this "young producing area", which next year will celebrate its twentieth anniversary since its inception.
This designation covers an area of ​​2,300 acres enrolled in the new grown different grape varieties, among which the Monastrell.
The inscribed, with 600 growers and 12 wineries bottling, comprising a total of nine municipalities in the region.
The DO Bullas sold in 2012 one million liters of wine, mainly for the domestic market, while the outside is for 35 percent of the average exports for the past three years, mainly to the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia and Japan.
The Minister of Agriculture stressed that these events "are very positive to unveil new proposals and areas of origin of wines."
He said weather conditions of this denomination "are very unique" with wines of intense color and very fruity.
The chairman of the Regulatory Council of the DO Bullas explained that this show will teach consumers, restaurants and wine bars wine characteristics and highlighted as objectives of the designation and quality promotion.
The awards gala in which prizes are awarded to wines Quality Contest winners will be held on March 5 in the town of Mula, locality pertaining to the production area covered by this appellation.
Source: CARM