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The Parellada is a very productive and good quality variety of white grape. The bunch is big and compact. The grape is medium-sized, greenish gold coloured and it has a tough skin. It has a long cycle, with an early budding and a late ripening, and it resists well the temperature changes, but it’s sensitive to diseases and drought.
It’s a traditional variety from Penedès, Conca de Barberà and Camp de Tarragona. Historically, it was also grown in Aragón, Pollença, Oriola and Valencia.
It’s used to produce cava, along with Macabeu and Xarel·lo, and it affords the cava the smooth-texture, the freshness and the distinction, and also a subtle and delicate feeling of flower aroma. Parellada’s wine is soft, light, low-proof, with little acidity and pale-coloured. When it’s grown in cool mountain microclimates, it produces dry aromatic white wines, which are very light and have delicate fruity aromas. The Parellada provides a bit of aristocracy and elegance. It resists badly the test of time so it has to be consumed young.
It’s the main variety of the DO Cava and the white wines of DO Catalunya, DO Conca de Barberà, DO Costers del Segre, DO Penedès and DO Tarragona.
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