Valencia has certain traits which distinguish
it quite clearly from other wine-growing regions in the east, and even
the rest, of Spain. It is now producing cool climate spanish
Wines adding to the Wines of the World. Large exporting companies are,
together with the cooperatives that often supply them, the main producers
in the region, with small and medium-sized wineries in a minority.
The production zone comprises 66 municipalities
in the province of Valencia, divided into four sub-zones: Alto Turia,
which groups together six municipalities in the northwest of the province
(10% of the total vineyards); Clariano, with 33 municipalities in the
south (30% of the total); Moscatel de Valencia, with nine municipalities
in the central zone of Valencia; and Valentino, made up of 24 municipalities
in the center, six of them also belonging to the sub-zone Moscatel de
Valencia.
