Pedro Ximenez

This journey through vineyards, wineries, wine cellars and Mills allows to know your process of elaboration through throughout a tour full of stimuli and made to enjoy with each of the senses. The silence that pervades the winery, glimmer, the smell of wood and wine, touch of boots breeding broths, the range of colors and shades of each of the five classes of the Montilla-Moriles denomination of origin (young, thin, amontillado, oloroso and Pedro Ximenez), aromas, the freshness of the fruit until the most noble wood fromall this leaves an indelible memory in the visitor. Beyond wine however, a visit of these characteristics implies something else to visit wineries, buy wine and enjoy wine tasting. It is innovate, be original, find the diversity and the development of a territory thanks to a tourism of quality, not crowded, and offering everything one who approaches, either curious, and lover in the matter, or neophyte and experienced the possibility of knowing the huge legacy, cultural, historical, architectural, artistic and ethnographic which preserves, thanks to museums, exhibitions and visits to monuments. The route intersects, also with other themed tours, such as the route of the Caliphate, the path of the Renaissance and the Roman Betica route. This environment privileged, filled with ancestral customs and singular spaces allows you to explore some of the artisanal traditions that have remained with the passage of time, such as the cooperage and the almost defunct tinware, ancient trades which have been preserved thanks to its link with the world of wine.

La Rambla has become one of the main centres in Spain of artistic ceramics, while other municipalities have done of handicraft leather and metalwork, engines of its economy. To take a breather and replenish forces there to be carried away by the flavors and the identity of the Earth. Dishes such as the traditional gazpacho, flamenquines, beans with Eggplant and black pudding, porridge of Wort, merengas them coffee and strawberry, alfajores where Montilla-Moriles wines are the ideal company or the basic ingredient. But they have also been used in the most innovative cuisine (Pedro Ximenez reduction for desserts, appetizers, main dishes) and for original products, such as wine ice cream or gelatin from Pedro Ximenez. The Vinarea network offers one of the best ways to delve into this universe of Oenology and favours the territorial cohesion of the region through equipment that relate tourism and wine world. Between the Auditorium and the lookout interpretative cordobes landscape, in Aguilar de la Frontera, and the Center food and wine of the route of the wine Moriles, in Lucena. Source of the news: wine route Montilla-Moriles, tradition and innovation