DENOMINACIÓN DE ORIGEN ARLANZA

It is situated in the centre of the province of Burgos. About 40 kilometres south from the capital. It is situated in the mid low part of the valley of the river Ärlanza  and its tributaries.. The area is enclaved between the Sierra of Cavarrubias to the east as far as the moors   of Cerrato to the west. The southern and western limits are set in the slopes of the river Arlanza. The territorial marcation is composed of 67 municiples, 54 of which are belong to the province of Burgos and 13 which belong to Palencia.

There exist in the area places of great cultural  and tourist interest as : Lerma and its collection of historic buildings, Santo Domingo de Silos with the monastery of the Benedic monks, Covarrubias as one of the best exponents of the castellan popular arquitecture, Santa Ma del Campo where you can see its arches the Asuncion  church, Mahamud and its main square. There also exist beautiful landscapes as la Sierra of Covarrubias, the beginning of the foothills of the Sierra of Demanda, the gorge of la Yecla. The impressive cleft in the rock of a singular beauty, the banks of the river Arlanza and the plains of the moors of Cerrato.

The orography of the area is marked by an important altitude which varies from over 1000 meters above sea level (m.s.n.m.) in the eastern area of the demarcation, coinciding with municipalities like Covarrubias  or  Santo Domingo de Silos, to 700 m.s.n.m. in the confluence of the rivers Arlanza and Arlanzón with the river Pisuerga in Torquemada. In the eastern are of the demarcation the vineyards are situated in microclimates protected by the solid mountains of la Sierra de Cervera and la Sierra de las Mambas (1300 – 1400 meters).  This altitude considerably determines the development of the cultivation and the ripening of the grapes, but at the same time it gives personality to the product obtained under these conditions.

VARIETIES: Tinta del País, it represents 95% of the total plantation, Garnacha, Mencía, Cabernet Sauvignón, Merlot and Petit Verdót and Albillo and Viura.