Visit and tasting at the Huerto de la Condesa winery

What it is

Around Ronda there are vineyards and small wineries that open for tastings. Huerto de la Condesa is at calle Guadalquivir, 2, in Ronda, and makes wine from its own grapes in the valley of the Guadalcobacín river, whose channel softens the temperatures; a stream divides the estate in two and the difference between day and night helps the grapes ripen. It planted one hectare of garnacha in 2008 and another of syrah in 2010, trellised, and in 2023 and 2024 added about five more, mostly red and white garnacha, with some garnacha tintorera, tintilla de Rota and viognier. Each year it does thinning and green pruning. Its first white, the Huerto de la Condesa Blanco 2023, is based on viognier.

The winery is inside the former Heredad de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, which was commissioned by Carmen Ábela García (1849–1924), Countess of Guadalevín, a title she received in 1917. She was a figure of the Ronda bourgeoisie of her time.

The two tastings

It opens every day from 11:00 to 15:00 and runs the tastings in Spanish and English:

• Un paseo entre nubes ("A walk among the clouds"): 90 minutes, with a winery visit, a virtual visit to the vineyard, presentation of the wines, four wines and a nibble. €30 per person.
• Entre copas ("Between glasses"): two hours, with a winery visit and a walk through the vineyard, presentation and five wines with a nibble. €40 per person.

For groups there are private tastings from six people.

How to book

On its website, by phone (689 34 29 11) or through the contact form. They accept tastings without a booking if there is room, but at a weekend it is best to secure one. If you are going to drink, have someone else drive or stay overnight in Ronda. The website says nothing about minors or accessibility: ask when you book if you need to.

How to fit it in

As it is open from 11:00 to 15:00, the convenient thing is a mid-morning tasting and lunch afterwards in the city; in Ronda you have, for example, Pedro Romero, opposite the bullring. If you are interested in the wine of the sierra, the Ronda tourist office publishes a list of wineries with guided visits in the area.