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Aylés

Vino de PagoAppellation

Aylés is a Vino de Pago appellation in Spain in Mezalocha. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 19 km south of La Muela and 31 km south-west of Zaragoza.

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Key facts

Type: DOP
Category: Wine
Protected since: 2011-12-23
Area: 6,064 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 8.2 × 11.73 km
Centre: 41.4140° N, 1.0716° W
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Garnacha Tinta, Merlot, Tempranillo
Max yield: 56 hl/ha
Min planting density: 3,300 vines/ha
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: 19 km south of La Muela
Nearest city: 31 km south-west of Zaragoza 686,986 people
To the sea: 175 km
Same latitude: Martha's Vineyard (United States), Bolnisi (Georgia), Huanren icewine (China)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 424–708 m
Mean elevation: 551 m
Mean slope: 8.9° (16 %)
Steepest tenth: above 20°
Faces: several directions, mostly north-east

Measured over the whole outline on 296,781 elevation cells of about 14 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)77%
Unconsolidated sediments19%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 1

Mezalocha

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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