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Andalucía & South

Andalucía & South covers the wine areas of southern Spain, including Jerez, Montilla-Moriles and Málaga. Jerez is known for dry Fino made from the Palomino grape and aged beneath a layer of yeast. Montilla-Moriles grows Pedro Ximénez, while Málaga wines are mainly made from Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel grapes.

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Andalucía & South, Spain
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Jerez (Sherry)
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Atlas locationAndalucía & South · Spain37.34° N · 3.44° WOpen in Atlas

In Andalucía, Jerez has gently rolling vineyard hills and white chalky soil called albariza. Its dry Fino wine is made from Palomino and aged under flor, a layer of yeast that grows on the wine. Montilla-Moriles is warmer, drier and more continental than Jerez. Pedro Ximénez, often shortened to PX, is its characteristic grape. For sweet wines, grapes may dry outdoors for seven to fifteen days, losing about half their weight as the sugars concentrate. The region also makes Fino, Amontillado, Oloroso and Palo Cortado, as well as newer dry and sparkling PX wines. A Fino from Montilla-Moriles has its own designation and is not Sherry. Málaga wines are mainly made from Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel grapes.

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  1. 01Jerez (Sherry)18 producersIn Jerez, in Andalucía, white calcareous albariza is the characteristic vineyard soil. Palomino makes dry Fino, aged under flor, a layer of yeast on the wine. The first denomination regulations and regulating council followed in January 1935.

Producer profiles

Producer profiles

Every producer profiled in Andalucía & South so far.

  • Bodega Malvajio MalapipaBodega Malvajio is a Málaga garage wine producer founded by Antonio Mérida, with Canibal as its red and Malapipa as its white.
  • Bodega Méndez MoyaBodega Méndez Moya makes organic Andalusian reds from Syrah, Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon, harvested at night in high altitude vineyards.
  • Bodegas AlvearSpain's oldest continuously operated family-owned winery, making Pedro Ximénez across the full spectrum from bone-dry flor-aged Fino to a concentrated sweet solera wine drawing from casks established in 1927.
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  • Bodegas BarbadilloBarbadillo is the largest Manzanilla producer in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a coastal Sherry town where Atlantic breezes and river humidity keep flor yeast active longer than inland Jerez.
  • Bodegas CampestralBodegas Campestral presents an organic 2024 rosé pét-nat made by the ancestral method, with naturally captured bottle carbonation.
  • Bodegas Cayetano del Pino & Cía SAA Jerez specialist making only Amontillado and Palo Cortado since 1886, with wines aged up to 27 years through the traditional criaderas and soleras system.
  • Bodegas José EstévezA Jerez-based group behind Valdespino, Marqués del Real Tesoro, La Guita, and Fino Tío Mateo.
  • Bodegas Luis Pérez S.L.Jerez bodega founded 2002, reviving unfortified vintage-dated Palomino wines from historic single pagos.
  • Bodegas LustauJerez-based Sherry house founded in 1896 as a private stockholder, now producing across all three Sherry Triangle locations from 10,000 casks in 19th-century cellars.
  • Bodegas Malaga VirgenBodegas Málaga Virgen's Marbella Blush Rosé is a Syrah rosé made with gravity pressing and low temperature fermentation.
  • Bodegas Rainera Pérez MarínSingle-product Manzanilla bodega in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, making La Guita continuously since 1852.
  • Bodegas TradiciónBodegas Tradición is a Jerez producer whose Palo Cortado Añada 1998 follows a three-criadera maturation system.
  • Compañía de Vinos del AtlánticoJerez project making small lot generosos and Cádiz still wines from organically farmed Palomino Fino material.
  • Cortijo Los AguilaresOrganic mountain estate in the Serranía de Ronda farming Pinot Noir, Petit Verdot and Tempranillo at high altitude in Andalusia, with international recognition for its Pinot Noir and a Petit Verdot-led flagship aged in French oak.
  • Dominio Buenavista SLUgíjar estate founded by Juan M.
  • González ByassGonzález Byass is a family-owned sherry producer in Jerez de la Frontera, making Tío Pepe fino and a full range of aged sherries from Palomino grapes under DO Jerez.
  • Gracia Hnos., S.A.U.Independent bodega in Montilla, Córdoba, founded in the 1950s by chemical analyst Francisco Gracia Naranjo.
  • Williams & HumbertA family-owned Jerez house where flor-aged Manzanilla and medium-sweet sherry show two distinct paths through Palomino, oxygen and time.
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