Kastilien-La Mancha

Castile, the realm of windmills, yields half of Spain’s wine produce. The enormous, flat, southern half of the large central Hispanic plateau presents Spain’s more extreme conditions: at altitudes of 500 to 700 m a.s.l. it gets extremely hot and dry during summer. While the landscape is lush and green in spring, in summer it turns dark-yellow and most of the river courses dry up. The predominant type of soil is red-brown, sandy, calcareous or clayey. Viticulture is made possible due to the soil’s ability to store even scarce quantities of water. A new generation of modern-day vintners is mainly cultivating the Airén white vine type and is focussed on a clean, authentic and mainly biological production.