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Valdeorras

Appellation

Valdeorras is an appellation in Spain across 104 communes. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type
DOP
Category
Quality Sparkling Wine/Wine/Wine From Raisined Grapes
Protected since
1986-06-13
Area
631,899 ha registered outline
Separate plots
6
Extent N–S × E–W
110.33 × 151.17 km
Centre
38.3923° N, 1.1138° W
Grapes
Albariño, Brancellao, Caíño Tinto, Doña Blanca, Espadeiro, Ferrón, Godello, Gran Negro, Juan García, Lado, Loureira, Mencía, Merenzao, Palomino, Sousón, Tempranillo, Torrontés, Treixadura
Other grapes
Garnacha Tintorera
Max yield
108 hl/ha

Where it is

Nearest town
6.3 km west of Pinoso
Nearest city
30 km west of Elda 55,168 people
To the sea
50 km
Same latitude
Central Anatolia (Cappadocia) (Türkiye), Helan Mountain East (Ningxia) (China), Bennett Valley (United States), Yamagata (Japan)

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

Terrain

Elevation
-2–1,510 m
Mean elevation
489 m

Measured over the whole outline on 27,989 elevation cells of about 479 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

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

Communes · 104

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Wineries · 15

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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