Mataro
Another name for the grape Mourvedre (see below).
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Mataro is exactly the same grape as the Mourvèdre. The name is more commonly used in Australia but is also in French listings.
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Also known as, Mataro, Balzac, Esparte.
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MATARO: New World alias name for the Mourvedre grape variety. (See below).
Select limited plantings occur in California, where the grape is often called the Mataro, and are used to produce a wine that sometimes develops the "green tea-like" herbal character that Rhone region french growers refer to as "animalé".
In Australia also known as Mataro, as Balzac in the Corowa region of New South Wales and as Esparte in the Great Western district of Victoria. In Spain the variety is known as Murviedro, Mataro, Monastrell, Morastell, l'Espar or Tinto.
A blend of Grenache, Carignan, Mataro (Mourvedre), Cabernet Sauvignon and Mavro (listed in decreasing proportions). This wine showed a dark strawberry red, the nose giving up hints of wet earth with slightly sweet plum fruits.
Mourvèdre, Monastrell, or Mataro is a variety of wine grape grown around the world. It is Spain's second-most widely planted red wine grape after Garnacha Tinta and was once Provence's most popular grape.
In California, mourvédre was historically called mataro and losing ground until the demand for Rhõne-type varietals began to surge in the late 1980s. Even today, most of the 560 acres planted are in Contra Costa County.
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A robust Mediterranean grape widely grown in the southern Rhone region of France, Spain, and in limited acreages of California. Used for color and body in red blends. Often called the Mataro in California, ...
wines of this area are red and mainly produced with Shiraz grape. Other red berried grapes cultivated in Barossa Valley and occasionally used together with Shiraz, are Grenache Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Mourvèdre, here known as Mataro.
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