Brief Historical Review.

  • In 1942 the “Law of Cooperation” was promulgated, and the Agricultural Unions were forced to change their name by the one of Agricultural Cooperatives. In those years the only center of transformation was the wine cellar of “Avenida de Regla” in which it was elaborated “listán”, muscatel and “arrope” and being the biggest producers of the zone of this one last one. In this wine cellar, all jobs were done in Large Barrels of chestnut tree wood and required a very considerable manpower, because the production arrived up to 4,000 Barrels. Our Cooperative has became a vital piece of the economy and the form of life of our population.
  • In 1954 the Cooperative began to realise managements to export our grape outside our town because we had two great advantages respect to our competitors. First, the high quality of our grape and second the maturation that happens one month earlier than in the whole region.
  • Our grape began to be known outside our region thanks to the publicity given to it in mass media and the magazines "The Spanish Exporter ," Leon Newspaper, ABC News ... and began to distribute in all Spain (as wine table of the Fine Palomino variety) although later exhausted this route (which caused more problems than benefits) began to exported to countries such as Germany, Switzerland, France, etc ...through nationals exporters.
  • The export of grapes became so important that the cooperative handled all the grapes produced, "verdeando" all the fields of Chipiona, but the grape export was finished for the imposition by the Civil Governor, who at the request of the wine cellars of Jerez, forced through a motion not to sell more grapes "for being as wine and not table wine.