SOMONTANO

There’s a classic wine region profile, which always starts with the area’s history. Producers once made wines that were highly regarded and sought-after. Then, people stopped drinking the wines. Or a plague arrived. Or a war. But just before the region slipped off into the brink of oblivion it was rescued by some far-sighted individuals, and now its future looks bright...

DO Somontano, the most northerly of the four Denominaciones de Origen in Spain’s Aragón region, definitely ticks all of these boxes – except it hasn’t done them in the usual order. And most importantly, the story of Somontano is by no means finished.

Vineyards and wine production in the Iberian peninsula