Toro

Appellation

Toro is an appellation in Spain across 15 communes. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

Hot, dry Castilla y León region for powerful Tinta de Toro, a local form of Tempranillo.

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Key facts

Type: DOP
Category: Wine
Protected since: 1989-10-07
Area: 76,103 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W: 34.17 × 38.68 km
Centre: 41.4283° N, 5.4547° W
Grapes: Albillo Real, Doña Blanca, Garnacha Tinta, Moscatel De Grano Menudo, Tempranillo, Verdejo
Max yield: 64.8 hl/ha
Min planting density: 500 vines/ha

Where it is

Nearest town: 12 km south-west of Toro
Nearest city: 26 km south-east of Zamora 61,827 people
To the sea: 231 km
Rivers nearby: Duero (11 km)
Same latitude: Martha's Vineyard (United States), Bolnisi (Georgia), Huanren icewine (China), South Islands (Canada)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 629–866 m
Mean elevation: 723 m

Measured over the whole outline on 58,506 elevation cells of about 115 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)61%
Unconsolidated sediments27%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 15

Argujillo
Bóveda De Toro, La
Morales De Toro
Pedrosa Del Rey
Pego, El
Peleagonzalo
Piñero, El
San Miguel De La Ribera
San Román De Hornija
Sanzoles
Toro
Valdefinjas
Venialbo
Villabuena Del Puente
Villafranca De Duero

Wineries · 1

Bodegas Sietecerros

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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