Abona is a Spanish Denominación de Origen

Denominación de Origen

Denominación de Origen is part of a regulatory classification system primarily for Spanish wines but also for other foodstuffs like honey, meats and condiments. In wines it parallels the hierarchical system of France and Italy although Rioja and Sherry preceded the full system...

 (DO) for wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

s located on the southern coastline of Tenerife

Tenerife

Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...

, (Canary Islands

Canary Islands

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, Spain

Spain

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), and acquired its DO in 1996.

Geography

The vineyards are planted at altitudes of between 200 m and 1,800 m on the slopes of the Teide

Teide

Mount Teide , is a volcano on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Its summit is the highest point in Spain, the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic, and it is the third highest volcano in the world measured from its base on the ocean floor, after Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea located in...

, an extinct volcano and the highest mountain in Spain at 3,715 m.

Climate

Due to the height of the Teide mountain, there are numerous microclimates within the characteristic subtropical climate of the Canary islands. At sea level, the climate is hot and subtropical, very sunny with sporadic rainfall. Between 550 m and 1,200, at cloud level, the humidity is higher, rainfall more frequent and the temperatures are lower. Above the cloud level, the climate is much drier, greater contrast between night and day temperatures, snow is normal and minimum temperature can fall to -5°C.

Grapes

The preferred authorized varieties are as follows:

• Red varieties: Bastardo
  Bastardo
  Bastardo is a proper noun for at least two referents, each of them probably cognate with the common noun bastardo, meaning bastard in several Romance languages:*Bastardo Spanish hiphop artist, based in Ibiza....
  
  , Malvasía rosada, Tintilla and Vijariego
• White varieities: Bastardo
  Bastardo
  Bastardo is a proper noun for at least two referents, each of them probably cognate with the common noun bastardo, meaning bastard in several Romance languages:*Bastardo Spanish hiphop artist, based in Ibiza....
  
  , Forastera
  Forastera
  Forastera is a white Spanish wine grape variety that is primarily grown in the Canary Islands. While it may have historically been used in sack production, now it is mostly a minor blending grape permitted in the Denominaciones de Origens of the Canary Islands.-Synonyms:Various synonyms have been...
  
  , Listán blanco and Pedro Ximénez
  Pedro Ximénez
  Pedro Ximénez is the name of a white grape grown in certain regions of Spain, and also a varietal wine, an intensely sweet, dark, dessert sherry...
  
  

Also authorized:

• Red varieties: Negramoll and Moscatel negro
• White varieties: Verdello
  Verdello
  Verdello is a comune in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. It has a population of 6,494....
  
  , Gual
  Gual
  Gual is a common surname present in Catalan countries and it can refer to:*Pedro Gual Villalbí, Spanish politician.*Pedro Gual Escandon, President of Venezuela.*Adrià Gual, Catalan playwright*Pedro Mairata Gual, Spanish soccer player...
  
  , Bermejuela and Moscatel

Traditionally the vines were planted as low bushes (en vaso) though newly planted vineyards tend to be on trellises (en espaldera).