Estella Land

Located in mid-western Navarre, it extends along the Camino de Santiago. It has 13% of vineyards, spread over 38 municipalities. With a dry-sub-humid climate, its soils are brownish-limestone on unconsolidated materials.

OTHER TERRITORIES

Where the sierras embrace the valleys, a diverse landscape unfolds its richness between mountains, rivers and fertile plains.

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Situation

Located on the western fringe of Navarre, along the Camino de Santiago, it borders the Basque Country and La Rioja. Capital: Estella.

Landscape

Crossed by the river Ega and limited by the Sierra de Urbasa, it has a marked relief in its northern area that is softening towards the south where it coexists with olive trees and cereals.

Vineyard area

1,204 hectares

Main grape varieties

In reds, Tempranillo stands out, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon and in whites, the main and majority is Chardonnay.

Soils

It covers soils developed on several types of relief and different materials. On the slopes of the Estella and Lorca diapirs, it occupies deep soils with very clayey textures over Triassic variegated loams. On the rest of the slopes, with a markedly undulating relief, there are soils of variable thickness and stoniness, fine loamy or silty textures on alternating loams, sandstones and conglomerates of the Tertiary continental, some with a marked red color. Finally, in the bottoms of the alluvial valleys and in the remains of the terraces of the Ega, Iranzu and Odrón rivers and the Montejurra glaciers, vines grow on flat or nearly well-drained land, deep soils with loamy textures and often with abundant gravel.

Weather

It is located between the sub-humid zone to the north and the upper dry zone to the south, with average annual rainfall varying between 700 and 454 mm. The Urbasa and Andía mountain ranges to the north filter the Atlantic influence, with the vineyards preferably located on the sunny slopes. In accordance with the existing differences in altitude and orientation, the favorable vegetative periods for the vineyard range from 206 days in Estella to 224 in Alloz.

Municipalities and councils

Aberin, Allo, Arellano, Armañanzas, Arróniz, Ayegui, Barbarin, Dicastillo, Desojo, El Busto, Espronceda, Estella, Igúzquiza, Lazagurría, Los Arcos, Luquin, Mendaza, Morentin, Murieta, Oteíza de la Solana, Sansol, Torralba del Río, Torres del Río, Valle de Yerri, Villamayor de Monjardín and Villatuerta, as well as the facerías of Cogullo Alto, Cogullo Bajo, Sarmindieta and Chandivar.