Macabeo
Sign in to saveMacabeo, also called Viura or Macabeu (, ), is a white variety of wine grape.
Key facts
- Grape variety.name
- Macabeo
- Grape variety.color
- Blanc
- Grape variety.color_alt
- White
- Grape variety.image
- Maccabeo blanc.jpg
- Grape variety.caption
- Macabeo in Viala & Vermorel
- Grape variety.species
- Vitis vinifera
- Grape variety.also_called
- Viura, Macabeu and other synonyms
- Grape variety.origin
- Spain
- Grape variety.pedigree1
- Hebén
- Grape variety.pedigree2
- Brustiano faux
- Grape variety.regions
- Rioja, Catalonia
- Grape variety.notable_wines
- Cava, white Rioja
- Grape variety.wines
- Crowd Wine Penedès
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Macabeo, also called Viura or Macabeu (, ), is a white variety of wine grape.
It is widely grown in the Rioja region of northeastern Spain, the Cava producing areas south of Barcelona, and the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. Spanish plantations stood at nearly in 2015, making it the second most grown white grape variety in Spain. In France, plantations accounted for in 2007. Since 2009, some Macabeo is grown in Israel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macabeo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.