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Date Published: 27/10/2022

Jumilla presents the brand-new Wine Tourism Fair

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This November will see Jumilla hosting an all-new wine event, with tastings, workshops and more

The town of Jumilla is known for its wine production, its wines with Protected Denomination of Origin (PDO), its wine tourist events and the famous Wine Routes around its bodegas. Now, the Jumilla Town Council is starting up an experimental and festive event based on the culture of Jumilla PDO wine, which will allow visitors to get to know the richness of this natural region first hand over the weekend of November 25-27.

The Mayor of Jumilla, Juana Guardiola, along with the president of the PDO Jumilla, Silvano García, and the president of the Route of the Wine of Jumilla, José Arturo Castellanos, accompanied by the Councillor for Agriculture, Juan Gil, have presented the I Fair of Wine and the Enoturismo of Jumilla (I Feria del Vino y del Enoturismo de Jumilla), which will be celebrated on November 25, 26 and 27 at the Mercado de Abastos marketplace.

This is a new event in the municipality “in which all of us involved in the organisation have been very excited for some time and which aims to take a step forward in the promotion and dissemination of Jumilla wines, local heritage and the PDO territory,” explained the government team.

While this is the first year it’s ever been done, they are hoping it will become an annual event, aimed at both the amateur wine-loving public and the more specialised wine sector.

It is being organised by the DOP Jumilla Regulatory Council and its wineries, with the support of the Jumilla Town Council, the Wine Route and the Federation of Peñas de las Fiestas de la Vendimia.

In this first edition, 21 wineries will participate and will present their wines, including their new 2022 vintage and present their wine tourism activities that take place throughout the year in the PDO Jumilla territory.

There will be tastings, concerts, gastronomic foodie events, workshops, children’s activities, guided tours, showcooking and loads more to be announced soon in the definitive programme.

All of this will coincide with the last weekend of the ‘Gastronomic Days’ event, organised by the Wine Route, which means that restaurants and wine bars in the city will be offering their gastronomic menus.

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Oficina de Turismo Jumilla

The tourist office in the centre of Jumilla is easily found by driving straight into the centre of the town along the Avenida de Murcia and following the signposts. The tourist office is alongside the Parque de Don Albano Martínez Molina, where there are a number of parking spaces.

Jumilla, in the north of the Region of Murcia, has become internationally famous over recent decades due to the quality of the wines produced in the municipality, and wine tourism has begun to attract visitors from other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe.

The tourist office is happy to provide a range of maps and leaflets showing the different bodegas which can be visited within the municipality. Some of these form part of the Rutas del Vino de Jumilla, the Jumilla wine route, and can either be visited as a guided tour or sell their produce directly to the public.(see feed below for more details)

However, the town and the surrounding countryside have plenty of other attractions for visitors, and the popularity of Jumilla wines is leading more and more people to discover other facets of the tenth largest municipality in Spain.

Jumilla Tourist Office

These include the spectacular countryside and birdlife in the Sierra del Carche, the historic remains which range from cave paintings and a Roman mausoleum to the castle, the Iglesia de Santiago, the Town Hall and the Teatro Vico, and the gastronomy: rich stews are accompanied not only by the wines of the area but also by Jumilla pears, which also enjoy Denomination of Origin status.

Tourism in Jumilla is not as seasonal as it is in the coastal areas of the Region of Murcia, but the town is at its liveliest during the fiestas in Holy Week and the August Fair, which incorporates the grape harvest celebrations and the Moors and Christians parades.

The Altiplano of the Region of Murcia, which consists of the municipalities of Jumilla and Yecla, is only just over an hour by car from the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Mazarrón, Torrevieja and Alicante, and anyone wishing to visit real inland Spain and world-class wineries is advised to include Jumilla in their schedule.