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Wine - AndaluciaD.O RegionsWine has been produced in Andalucía for centuries, mainly for local and home consumption even, through the eight hundred years that the Moors dominated these lands. But it wasn’t until XVI and XVII with the growing commercial maritime trade, that wine production and exportation really began to flourish. It was the English who, discovering that these highly alcoholic wines kept and transported well, they introduced them to England as sherry – the English pronounciation of Jerez.
Andalucia has six D.O OR Denominaciones de Origen. Jerez-Xeres-Sherry Manzanilla-Sanlucar de Barrameda Malaga Sierras de Malaga Montilla-Moriles Condado de Huelva
Jerez-Xeres-Sherry and Manzanilla-Sanlucar de Barrameda are produced in the west of Cadiz province, with white grapes, mainly the palamino, but also ximenez and muscatel. Manzanilla wine is made only from the manzanilla grape and is only grown around the Jerez area. Malaga wine is a new D.O which makes a variety of different wines. Here varieties of the muscatel grape and pedro ximenez, grow in four regions of differing micro-climates. The main wines from this area are Lagrima, Moscatel, Pedro Ximenez, Dulce Color, Parajete and Seco. Montilla-Moriles bodega from Cordoba province produce finos, olorosos, amontillados and use the solar system much like in Jerez, but the grape used here is pedro ximenez producing a very different fruitier and stronger wine. The Condado de Huelva is in the flats of the River Gualalquivir, these wines of Huelva tend to be not so well known, but try Los Condado Palido its star!
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