V.F. Wine tourism offers new avenues of income for wine producers. It’s something else to visit wineries. Wine production has determined the life and landscape of the area. White villages on hills, hills and hillsides, interspersed with vineyards, olive groves and fertile fields of cereals to mold the landscape of a cordovan countryside increasingly more famous as birthplace of the generous of the Montilla-Moriles denomination of origin wines. In the heart of Andalusia, the area Center and South of the Cordoba Province has preserved a unique heritage, in a framework that can hardly be found elsewhere in Europe.

Nine municipalities have come together to form known as the route of the wine Moriles, offer the visitor a quality destination, where to integrate resources and tourist services in this wine-growing area. Aguilar de la Frontera, Cordoba, Fernan Nunez, La Rambla, Lucena, Montemayor, Montilla, Moriles and Puente Genil are the cities that make up this tour integrated into the project Routes of the wine of Spain, promoted by the Association Spanish cities of wine (ACEVIN) and the General Secretariat of tourism of Spain (SGT). Knowing their roots the origin of this unique oenological universe that forms the southernmost Cordoba we find it in the center of Europe. She says several centuries ago a soldier belonging to the thirds of Flanders, Peter Ximen, took to the countryside shoots of a vine that was cultivated in the Valley of the Rhine. This variety was perfectly acclimatised to the soil and climate of the region. Since then, the grape must used in the elaboration of the wine of this name (except for the young, which is interspersed with other varieties), comes from this type of grape that began to be called Pedro Ximenez.