D.O. VALENCIA

The DO vineyards are all in Valencia province but, unlike its famed market-gardens (huerta), they sit well outside the city, to the north-west and south. Most are at least 30 km inland and often pocketed in valleys. In general, subsoils vary from lowland alluvial to highland limestone, through clay in the middle reaches. Topsoils vary from decomposed limestone in the western lowlands to sandy soil in the highlands.