Montilla-Moriles

Appellation

Montilla-Moriles is an appellation in Spain across 17 communes. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

Andalusian wines similar to sherry, but Pedro Ximénez ripens so fully here that the wines often need no fortification.

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Key facts

Type: DOP
Category: Liqueur Wine/Wine
Protected since: 1986-06-13
Area: 234,642 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W: 63.38 × 72.45 km
Centre: 37.5382° N, 4.6560° W
Grapes: Airén, Chardonnay, Macabeo, Moscatel De Alejandria, Moscatel De Grano Menudo, Pardina, Pedro Ximénez, Sauvignon Blanc, Torrontés
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: around the town of Montilla
Nearest city: 21 km north-west of Lucena 42,248 people
To the sea: 93 km
Rivers nearby: Genil (18 km)
Same latitude: Yantai (China), Southeast Anatolia (Türkiye), Virginia’s Eastern Shore (United States)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 116–1,186 m
Mean elevation: 344 m

Measured over the whole outline on 40,593 elevation cells of about 242 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)52%
Mixed sedimentary rocks33%
Unconsolidated sediments10%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 17

Aguilar De La Frontera
Baena
Cabra
Castro Del Río
Doña Mencía
Espejo
Fernán-Núñez
Lucena
Montalbán De Córdoba
Montemayor
Montilla
Monturque
Moriles
Nueva Carteya
Puente Genil
Rambla, La
Santaella

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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