Wine tourism in Tomelloso

Visit Tomelloso, experience the La Mancha Wine Route .

The land where Tomelloso has its origins belonged to the Military Order of Santiago and its Encomienda de Socuéllamos. Tomelloso has been a place of lordship since its birth, dependent on one of the most important Military Orders of the Iberian Peninsula.

During the 18th century, Tomelloso underwent a change in its main economic source, linked since its birth to the cereal exploitation of its lands. So, from the middle of that century, the vine will begin to be introduced among its cropsAlbeit timidly at first, until reaching its peak during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, when it practically became a monoculture.

The enormous wine production, together with the town’s poor transport links, led to the development of a large number of distilleries from the end of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century, which reduced the volume of wine production using alcoholic distillation, thus facilitating its transport and commercialisation. These alcohol breweries, initially owned by residents of Tomelloso and later by major companies in the national alcohol sector, led Tomelloso to become the leading producer of wine alcohol in the world in the mid-20th century, a position it still holds today.