Low Mountain

Located in the northwest of Navarra, it encompasses 22 municipalities that represent 15% of the vineyards of the D.O. Navarra. Classified as a dry-sub-humid zone, it has reddish or yellowish soils, often gravelly, and is limestone in nature in the upper part of the Aragón River.

OTHER TERRITORIES

In the east of Navarra, an abrupt and diverse orography is home to fertile valleys, low forests and unique soils.

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Situation

It is located in the east of Navarre, bordering Aragon. Capital: Sangüesa.

Landscape

The area is very marked by a pronounced orography, with abundant low forest vegetation, where vines reign in the few cultivable areas.

Vineyard area

1,390 hectares

Main grape varieties

The majority variety par excellence in this area is Garnacha Tinta. White varieties occupy a small part of the vineyard, led by Chardonnay.

Soils

It covers soils developed on several types of relief and different materials. Thus, occupying slopes, in the northernmost part, there are soils of variable thickness, without stoniness, and heavy textures on the gray marls of the marine Eocene in the Lumbier basin. On the rest of the slopes there are soils of variable thickness and stoniness, fine loamy or silty textures on alternating loams and sandstones of the Tertiary continental Ebro Valley. Finally, in the valley bottoms and the remains of the alluvial terraces of the Irati and Aragón rivers, i.e. flat land, often with abundant gravel, the vineyard occupies deep soils with loamy textures and excellent drainage.

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 760 and 470 mm. Given the differences in elevation, the favorable vegetative periods for the vineyard range from 205 days in Lerga to 234 days in San Martín de Unx. This is the area with the greatest Pyrenean influence.

Municipalities and councils

Aibar, Cáseda, Eslava, Ezprogui, Gallipienzo, Javier, Leache, Lerga, Liédena, Lumbier, Sada, Sangüesa, San Martín de Unx, Ujué and the Councils of Arboniés and Domeño of the Romanzado Valley and those of Rípodas, San Vicente and Tabar of the Urraul Bajo Valley.