The Navarra Wine Route is limited to the province of Navarra, where we can discover 26 wineries. In this route, there are 19 localities with wineries that offer wine tourism. Of all of them, Olite/Erriberri has the most wineries to visit, with 5 wineries.
Traditionally, Navarra has focused on the production of rosé wines, but from the 1990s onwards they began to produce red wines that were very well received in the market, as they are serious, consistent and very elegant wines. Regarding its winemaking tradition, it is known that it dates back to the first century after Christ, as archaeological remains of wineries from Roman times have been discovered. But as in most of the other wine areas mentioned here, the wine revolution took place in the medieval monasteries, and in the particular case of Navarra, this impulse took place during the High Middle Ages and was always closely linked to the Camino de Santiago; the Irache Monastery is usually cited as an example of this wine activity. However, the history of Navarre's wine does not end here. In the 19th century, there was such an explosion of wine cultivation in the area that the authorities had to prohibit the planting of more vines. Even so, the devastation caused by phylloxera in the French vineyards favored all the wine areas of Spain in general, and this one in particular, until mildew in 1885 and phylloxera in 1892 created a total disaster in wine-growing Navarre. The figures are more than chilling: from 50,000 hectares of vineyards to only 700 hectares, the outlook was bleak and it seemed that there would be no recovery. However, in 1912, in the heat of the associative and cooperative movements of the beginning of the century, the Association of Navarrese Winegrowers was created, and this led to the rebirth of the wine sector in Navarre.
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