Designated Region

Before the arrival of Romans to Zamora’s lands, residents from District of Toro already elaborated wines very appraised in the Peninsula and in the Mediterranean basin.

Wines from Toro had such prestige that King Alfonso IX of León granted privileges for its production in the XII century.
In XIV century, Seville prohibited the entry of any wine to the city, with exception of ones that came from Toro.

The wine that Columbus took into the expedition to Discovery America in 1492 was from Toro, given that their structure and body tolerated long voyages; Brother Diego de Deza, native of Zamora and one of Isabel's "The Catholic” confessors, economically collaborated in such expedition, and because of this, they allowed to put the name to one of the Caravels; this was “La Pinta”, given that was a measure of wine in Toro.

At the end of XIX century, big remittances of wine from the District of Toro were exported to France and were desolated by the plague of Phylloxera.

Already in XX century many viticulture Spanish regional districts bought grape from Toro to elaborate wines of good quality.

As for a brief historical journey to essentially remember, that viticulture tradition from District of Toro even goes back before the Roman dominance, continuing tradition of selling wines outside borders during XII and XIII centuries, proposal for assignment of actual privileges to these wines, up to point that King of Leon Alfonso IX waived the lands of Toro to the capital of Compostela for production of these valuable wines. Such was the quality that during the XIV century and by king's command, entry of any strange wine was prohibited in Seville to the exception of those from Toro. There where wines which participated in the discovery of America, and their capacity was known to conserve high graduation throughout the voyage. During XIX century a great quantity of wine was exported from Toro to France, which was affected by the Phylloxera plague.

During the XX century, there where many Viticulture Regional Districts, which bought grape from Toro in order to elaborate good quality wines.

The Denomination of Origin of these wines from Toro is recent, starting at mid year 70, when worked in Specific Denomination, previous to the achievement of absolute Denomination of Origin May 29 1987. The Spanish legislation understands for Denomination of Origin (D.O.) geographical name of area, district, place or town used to designate a product coming from vine, wine or alcohols of respective meadow, when there have qualities and differential due characters to natural means, elaboration and vintage.

The Denomination Quality Wines Produced in Certain Areas (V.C.P.R.D.) make reference to all the Spanish wines that regulatory community scheme recognizes as Quality Wines, produced, protected and marketed by Origin Denominations