Wine tours in Yecla

• Yecla is in the province of Murcia.
• Here we can find 4 wineries with wine tourism.

The Monastrell grape is the main grape in the Yecla area, as it occupies more than eighty percent of the registered vineyards. In Yecla, archaeological remains have been found of a winery dating back to the 1st century BC, but the wine industry in this area did not really take off until well into the Renaissance in Spain. In the 19th century, due to the phylloxera that devastated the French vineyards, some winemakers from Bordeaux and Burgundy settled in Yecla. Afterwards, wine production came to a standstill until the La Purísima cooperative and Bodegas Castaño burst onto the scene and transformed the wine scene in Yecla, seeking a quality wine that would give it its own identity compared to its big brother, the wine of Jumilla. One of these measures was to bring forward the harvest in order to avoid over-ripening, so that Yecla wines were generally made with a short maceration process and short ageing periods. In literature from the beginning of the century, we find references to this wine in writers of the Generation of '98 such as Pío Baroja and Azorín. References to the wine can also be found in art, as shown by the grape variety represented in a frieze found in Los Torrejones.

Wineries near Yecla

• Caudete a 12.49 Km (2 Wineries)
• Salinas a 17.32 Km (1 Wineries)
• Villena a 18.52 Km (3 Wineries)
• Jumilla a 22.29 Km (14 Wineries)
• Pinoso a 23.26 Km (3 Wineries)
• Fuente-Álamo a 27.46 Km (1 Wineries)
• Almansa a 28.79 Km (2 Wineries)
• Font de la Figuera a 31.13 Km (2 Wineries)
• Ontur a 31.41 Km (1 Wineries)
• Alfaz del Pi a 35.76 Km (1 Wineries)