Valdizarbe

It is the nerve center of the Camino de Santiago. It is home to 25 municipalities and its vineyards represent 7% of the surface area of the D.O. Navarra. The climate is dry-sub-humid, halfway between the humid Navarre of the north and the semi-arid of the south, and the soils are brownish-limestone.

OTHER TERRITORIES

Vineyards on slopes and terraces of the Arga, with unique reddish soils and an ideal sub-humid climate.

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Situation

It is located in the middle Navarre, south of the Pamplona basin, and is the nerve center of the Camino de Santiago as it passes through the province, joining the two variants coming from Lower Navarre and Aragon. Capital: Puente La Reina.

Landscape

Marked in its western part by the foothills of the Sierra de Andía and the Sierra del Perdón to the north, it runs largely around the Arga River, being an area of gentle hills and valleys.

Vineyard area

623 hectares

Main grape varieties

The main red grape variety is Garnacha. This is followed by Tempranillo, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. As for the white varieties, Chardonnay predominates.

Soils

The situation is similar to that of the Lower Mountain area, covering soils developed on various types of relief and different materials. In the northernmost part of the slopes we can find soils of variable thickness, without stoniness and heavy textures on the gray marls of the marine Eocene in the Pamplona basin. On the rest of the slopes the soils have developed from materials that are an alternation of loams and sandstones from the continental Tertiary, with variable thickness and stoniness, fine loamy or silty textures and some have a very characteristic reddish color. As in the previous areas, there are also vineyards in the alluvial bottoms and on the remains of the terraces of the Arga and Salado rivers and the glaciers from the Sierra del Perdón, on practically flat land with no drainage problems, with deep soils of loamy textures and frequently stony.

Weather

It completes the northern limit of the vineyard distribution in Navarra, being the most humid of all the areas. Also, as in Tierra Estella, the mountain ranges to the north reduce the Atlantic influence and the vineyards tend to occupy the sunny areas. Located between the sub-humid zone to the north and the upper dry zone to the south, its average annual rainfall varies between 807 and 544 mm. The favorable vegetative periods for the vineyard range from 203 days in Otazu to 227 days in Puente la Reina.