Founded in 1729, Alvear is a winery in Andalusia, ageing Pedro Ximénez and fino under the flor and solera system of the Montilla-Moriles denomination. Its Montilla cellars hold sweet vintage PX going back decades alongside dry, biologically aged whites, and run guided tastings.
Montilla since 1905, working the chalky albariza of Montilla-Moriles into finos, amontillados and Pedro Ximénez under the Gran Barquero label. The Amontillado Solera Fundacional has been given a hundred points by The Wine Advocate in 2016 and 2024, as listed by the winery.
A family bodega in Montilla founded in 1927, Robles was among the first in Montilla-Moriles to convert fully to certified organic winemaking. It makes ecological finos, amontillados and Pedro Ximénez alongside organic vinegars and verjus.
Best for Organic Montilla-Moriles wines and vinegars
Artesania Cordobesa is a Cordoba jeweller specialising in traditional cordobesa silver filigree, crafting rings, earrings and pendants from finely twisted wire. It sells its handmade pieces through its own shop and site.
Opened in 1908 on Calle Lineros, Campos aged its own Montilla-Moriles wines across a warren of patios and cellars in the old town before growing into a restaurant and event house. It still bottles house wine and runs a shop selling regional bottles and gourmet products.
Bodegas Mezquita runs a small group of tabernas in Córdoba's old town serving local dishes such as salmorejo, and keeps an online shop of regional products. The tienda carries Montilla-Moriles wines, Los Pedroches Iberian ham and Andalusian cheeses.
Bodegas Toro Albalá has operated in Aguilar de la Frontera since 1922 and is known for vintage-dated Don PX Pedro Ximénez aged in long-running soleras. The winery also offers current wine-tourism visits and tastings at its Aguilar cellar.
Master artisan Ramón García Romero revived the lost Umayyad technique of gilded, polychromed guadamecí here, and the house doubles as a museum of his large-format leather panels. A shop sells pieces worked in the caliphal manner, and guided visits trace the craft from raw hide to metal-leaf finish.
Córdoba bookshop specializing in the humanities, with strong sections in psychology, literature, sociology, education, philosophy, anthropology, history and theatre.
Ceramist Gema Muñoz throws and hand-paints tableware and decorative pieces in her Córdoba studio, working clay and mineral pigments to commission for homes and restaurants. She also runs wheel and glazing classes for all levels alongside the retail range.
Best for Gema Muñoz's hand-painted tableware and decorative ceramics from her Córdoba studio
Belloterra trades from Añora, in the Los Pedroches valley north of Córdoba, a dehesa the region's own promotional material describes as the most populated and best-preserved oak forest of its kind in the world — a claim substantial enough that UNESCO designated the area a Biosphere Reserve in 2002.
Best for DOP Los Pedroches acorn-fed ham from an under-recognized producing region
Belloterra trades from Añora, in the Los Pedroches valley north of Córdoba, a dehesa the region's own promotional material describes as the most populated and best-preserved oak forest of its kind in the world — a claim substantial enough that UNESCO designated the area a Biosphere Reserve in 2002. It is one of the acorn-fed ibérico-producing areas the trade treats as foundational, alongside Guijuelo and Extremadura, even though it draws far less outside attention than Jabugo.
The shop's hams and shoulders carry the Los Pedroches Denominación de Origen Protegida seal, a regional certification distinct from Jabugo's or Guijuelo's own designations, graded with color-coded labels: black for 100% Iberian bellota, red for 75% Iberian bellota, and green for campo, or pasture-raised non-acorn product. The DOP council specifies a montanera acorn-feeding season running from November through February, the period the region credits for the natural sugars that shape the ham's final flavor.
Alongside whole and deboned hams and shoulders, Belloterra sells sliced formats, Iberian sausages, and a small range of regional gourmet extras — olive oil, cheese, wine, conservas — plus gift packaging. It functions as the DOP's retail-facing shop for a producing region that supplies real volume to Spain's ibérico trade but rarely gets named on its own in front of consumers.
Meryan is a family workshop off Cordoba's Calleja de las Flores that hand-embosses and tools cordoban and guadameci leather, the Andalusian art of decorated hide dating to the caliphate. It makes bags, boxes, panels and desk pieces, working the leather with heat, punch and pigment on the premises.
Best for Hand-embossed Cordovan leather (guadameci)
Plata Cordobesa makes Cordoba filigree, the openwork silver jewellery formed by soldering fine twisted threads into lace-like patterns. The workshop hand-crafts earrings, pendants and brooches and runs jewellery-making experiences at its Cordoba atelier.
Herederos de J. Rusi is a Cordoba hatmaker producing the wide-brimmed, flat-crowned sombrero cordobes alongside other traditional Spanish hats and caps. The workshop shapes felt and straw hats and sells them from its Cordoba shop.
In La Rambla, Andalusia's pottery town, this workshop is recognised by the regional government as a Point of Artisanal Interest and throws stoneware tableware on the wheel. Collaborations such as the 'Feria' and 'Pagoda' ranges with designer Sebastián Gallego have carried its work to Japan and England.