Córdoba province's own fortified-style wine, made from Pedro Ximénez on chalky albariza soil and aged through a solera: bone-dry fino at one end, black syrupy PX at the other.
Montilla-Moriles is its own denomination of origin, based in the towns south of Córdoba, and it is not sherry. Jerez lies roughly 200km away and works mainly with Palomino; Montilla-Moriles works with Pedro Ximénez, which ripens so high in sugar here that most of its wines reach their strength without fortification at all. The same grape produces the driest fino and the sweetest PX depending on whether it goes under flor or is sun-dried first. Córdoba's tabernas serve it by the copa straight from the barrel, and the Cata del Vino brings ten bodegas onto the Avenida del Alcázar every April.
4 editor picks for Vino de Montilla-Moriles in Córdoba, ranked by editorial score. All Córdoba signature dishes · Vino de Montilla-Moriles across every city.
Bodega Guzmán ★ 4.5
juderia · Calle Judíos 7, 14004 Córdoba
Bodega Guzmán pours Montilla-Moriles straight from the barrel on Calle Judíos in Córdoba, under a wall of bullfighting posters and mounted heads.
Sociedad de Plateros San Francisco ★ 4.4
ribera · Calle San Francisco 6, 14003 Córdoba
The Plateros silversmiths' guild still runs this Córdoba taberna on Calle San Francisco, thick white walls set around a patio under a skylight.
Vinoteca Ordóñez ★ 4.2
juderia · Calle Medina y Corella 1, 14003 Córdoba
Vinoteca Ordóñez works a terrace within sight of the Mezquita in Córdoba, running a wide Spanish list built out from Montilla-Moriles wines.
Taberna La Fuenseca ★ 4.2
centro · Calle Juan Rufo 20, 14001 Córdoba
Taberna La Fuenseca sits on Calle Juan Rufo in Córdoba, a wooden-bar house on the city's historic-taberna register pouring fino en rama by the copa.