Open Wine Atlas

Urueña

Urueña is a Vino de Pago appellation in Spain in Urueña. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 21 km south-west of Medina de Ríoseco and 39 km north-west of Valladolid.

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Key facts

Type

DOP

Category

Wine

Protected since

2021-11-04

Area

4,410 ha outline of listed communes

Extent N–S × E–W

8.3 × 9.64 km

Centre

41.7314° N, 5.1871° W

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Tempranillo

Max yield

56 hl/ha

Min planting density

3,000 vines/ha

Irrigation

Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town

21 km south-west of Medina de Ríoseco

Nearest city

39 km north-west of Valladolid 300,618 people

To the sea

193 km

Same latitude

Kakheti (Georgia), Grand River Valley (United States), South Islands (Canada)

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

Terrain

Elevation

706–836 m

Mean elevation

788 m

Mean slope

2.5° (4 %)

Steepest tenth

above 8°

Faces

north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 218,075 elevation cells of about 14 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

• Mixed sedimentary rocks97%

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

Communes · 1

• Urueña

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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