Yecla, the vineyards of Spain to delight in the world

Scan the horizon of the wide world of wine always gives rewards rewarding. This is the case that we put this experience to readers. The AOC Yecla, Murcia, should be recorded as a new enclave of the wine that deserves to be known by wine lovers around the world.

First grade – Special Ricardo Brizuela:
Community is located in Yecla Murcia region of Spain is facing the Mediterranean and limits with Valencia, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia.


Yecla has the distinction – which the binoculars in the treatment of the subject with France’s AOC – AOC set up a Spanish whose limits are marked by the people of the community itself.

Portrait of Yecla

Jose Martinez Ruiz, who became famous in world literature under the pseudonym Azorin, Yecla described this way: “First, stand the golden walls of the Old Church, with its sturdy tower, further down, the new church, still lower, limiting the garden, along Pías Building Schools (Pious), dotted with tiny dots of its balconies. And scattered throughout the city, old temples, hermits, oratories, chapels on the left, Santa Barbara, San Roque, San Juan, ruinous, and the Niño (Child), with small domes of its roof lowered and then, right, Hospital, flanked by his two tiny little towers; San Cayetano, the Religious …”.

But beyond this idyllic vision of the poet, Yecla encloses an agricultural-industrial space in the economic forefront. Regarding the latter activity, industries mueble and wine stand out. In agriculture, the vineyards have a superlative importance: the members of one cooperative enterprise (La Purisima), operating almost 3,200 hectares of grapes viniphique, among which are distinguished from varieties such as Monastrell (90%), Syrah, Tempranillo, Airén , Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Blanc, Macabeo Merseguera.
It is said that given his heritage Yecla wine directly from the Phoenicians (2500 years BC), and there are archaeological remains testifying to the importance of this production was during the Roman occupation.

Vintage:

The harvest takes place in Yecla in late August, when the first white grape varieties are harvested until early November when the grapes are harvested later. This is an activity that shakes the region and meets a fiery movement cellars.

Precisely among the wineries that are grapes and wine from Yecla develop, is the cellar La Purisima monopolizes nearly 60% of wine production and AOC becomes one of the largest companies in Spain .
This cooperative experience is worthy of being known because it describes how a production of 9 million liters up to the consumer with a quality comparable to the best Appellations of Origin in the world.