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The Spanish DO area is an enclave on the southern edge of the huge DO area of La Mancha and is named after the town of the same name. The name means "valley of the rocks". The vineyards at 700 metres above sea level cover around 30,000 hectares on stony, reddish-coloured soil with a water-storing limestone layer. The climate is extreme and is described as "nine months of winter and three months of hell (dry and hot)". At the beginning of the 1990s, the proportion of the white variety Airen was still around 80%, but this has since been reduced to around half in favour of the red wine varieties Cencibel (Tempranillo), Garnacha Tinta and Cabernet Sauvignon. Other white wine varieties are Macabeo, Pardillo and Moravia Agria.

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