Condado De Huelva is an Andalusian appellation that combines the traditional solera and criadera ageing systems with the most advanced research on soil and native grapes, particularly the Zalema variety. Having recently modernised their entire organisation, this is an appellation proud of its past, active in the present and who looks to the future with interest.

The Regulating Council’s establishment date is documented in the vine growing history of this Huelva region, designated ‘Condado’ in the 14th century. Legendary references exist of exchanges between the Tartessos and the Greeks of batches of wine sent to Rome and the Muslims’ tolerance towards wine growing and making.

There are also many documents that date the first batch of wine shipped from this region, from the port of Seville to India, as January 1502. The region’s export tradition spanned several centuries, reaching its golden age in the 16th century.

In subsequent centuries there were alternate periods of splendour and decadence where Condado de Huelva’s wines seem to have lost their celebrity status on the Spanish panorama. The phylloxera plague suffered at the end of the 19th century saw the introduction of resistant rootstock that helped to bring about recovery, although by then the region’s wines had lost their prestige. However, aware of the need to produce and make wine with quality criterion and in an effort to recapture the greatness of past eras, in 1962 DO Condado de Huelva, was founded, and its Regulation approved in 1963. These by-laws were modified in 2002 with the creation of DO Vinagre del Condado de Huelva, also controlled by the Regulating Council.