Lucena: denominación de origen y proyección cultural de un vino español en la Europa del Barroco

Abstract

This article analyzes the sociocultural significance of Lucena wine in early modern Europe. The research is based on the cross-study of data from the greatest quantity and variety of sources between the 1590s and 1730s that has been possible, especially European Baroque literature: narrative, theatre, poetry, memoirs, epistolaries, travel books... The object of study is the creation and dissemination of the name Lucena and its social perception, once the term of geographical origin had been transformed into a recognizable brand, a process contextualized in its regional and legal framework of production, that is, the Córdoba countryside and the manorial state of the Marquises of Comares, later joined to that of the Marquessate of Priego, with the city of Montilla, current capital of this Spanish wine region.