Article 6. Growing practices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

1. Growing practices will tend to obtain the best qualities.

2. Planting density will be of between 800 and 5.000 vines per hectare.

3. Vines formation and pruning shall be done in accordance with the variety, fertility, pattern and agro-environmental characteristics of each plantation and with the clear objective of obtaining high quality productions.

For all the varieties, vines formation, shall be done according to traditional systems, en cabeza [a way of pruning to give plants a rounded shape]o en vaso [conduction system with no supports to guide vegetation, which will present an autonomous and globular shape], either with conduction systems with supports en espaldera [conduction system with supports to guide vegetation in a vertical direction] with one or two guidelines, vara y pulgar ["stick and thumb",a way of pruning in which vines are left with 1 to 3 or 3 to 4 young shoots for every shoot]or any other system.

The maximum number of young shoots in every vine will be of 18. In the Moscatel variety and for vines conducted en vaso, a maximum of 5 pulgares [part of the vine shoot which is left after vine pruning and shelters 2 or 3 young shoots so the stems can sprout] with 3 young shoots for each vine shall be allowed.

For traditional formation systems and in those places where there is the risk of late frost, shall be possible not to do the a la ciega pruning [typical pruning for areas with hot summers and high-fertility varieties as it is Pedro Ximénez, it consists of reducing the vine to a tem and to pulgares located around it] remaining, in this case, the pulgares with two young shoots. Once the risk of frost is finished, the removal of the remaining shoots shall be done. Only one shoot shall remain for each pulgar.

4. Nevertheless, the Regional Department for Agriculture and Fisheries shall authorize the implementation of new methods, treatments or growing processes that, constituting an improvement for wine-growing technics, are not detrimental for grape quality neither for the wine produced.

5. The Control Board shall authorize irrigation of the registered plantations, for certain wine years under the conditions established by the Control Board and in accordance with the Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/99 of 17 May.

[Extract of the New Regulation for the Control Board for Designation of Origin "Málaga"and "Sierras de Málaga"]

Article 9. Plantations.

1. The authorisation for plantations in grounds or vineyards located in the production area, will be done only with the mandatory report from the Control Board for registered vines or for vines which are going to be properly registered, without detriment to the powers transferred to the Andalusian Regional Department for Agriculture and Fisheries.

2. Inscription of mixed plantations in the Control Board's Vine Register will not be admitted if it would be impossible to make an absolute division among the different varieties within the grape harvest.