The Ronda and Málaga Wine Route the best in Spain at the 2024 Best in Class Wine Awards.

Malaga, April 11, 2025.- The municipality of Tomelloso, in Ciudad Real, was yesterday the venue for the “Best in Class Wine Awards 2024” awards ceremony, in which the “Ronda and Malaga Wine Route” was chosen as the “best wine route to discover” in Spain. These awards, promoted by the WineUp! Guide, aim to recognize excellence, quality, and uniqueness in the world of wine.

“The wine route was certified as a Wine Route of Spain in 2013, and since then, significant work has been done to expand it to encompass the entire province. This award, which fills us with pride, recognizes the work carried out over all these years and encourages us to continue working in the same vein and with the same enthusiasm. Furthermore, we are particularly pleased that this award was based on a public vote, as, without a doubt, our main objective is for the end consumer to appreciate our wines and learn about our regions through them,” said José María Losantos, president of the Ronda and Málaga Wine Route.

The “Best in Class Wine Awards” recognize the best wines of the year in categories such as red, rosé, sparkling, brandy, and best value. They also award the “The Spanis Monovarietal Wine Ambassador” prizes to the best single-varietal wines. Each year, they also present prizes in categories voted for by the public, such as best new winery, wine tourism project, internationalization initiative,

Young sommelier talent or outstanding institution of the year. This year, and for the first time at these awards, the category of “Best Wine Route to Discover” was established, with the Ronda and Málaga Wine Route like winner (rutavinorondamalaga.com) Other routes competing in the category were La Mancha, Cigales, and Sierra de Francia wine routes.

The Wine Up! Guide, the event organizer, was recognized in 2023 as the best wine guide in Spain by the IWC Industry Awards Spain. Its ratings are conducted through blind tastings at no cost to participating wineries.

The Awards Gala also included a tribute to Sarah Jane Evans MW, a renowned expert on our Malaga wine-producing regions and wines. She was chosen as “Person of the Year 2024” for her professional career and her work promoting Spanish wines internationally.

The Ronda and Málaga Wine Route is one of the 37 wine routes certified by ACEVIN and currently includes the municipalities of Ronda, Málaga, Arriate, Moclinejo, Almáchar, Cómpeta, El Borge, Sayalonga, Manilva, and Mollina. These routes include wineries registered with the Regulatory Council of the Málaga and Sierras de Málaga Designations of Origin, museums, interpretation centers, restaurants, hotels, establishments, and associated tour guides.

The Enogastronomic Tourism of the province of Malaga is promoted at the International Tourism Fair FINE 2024.

The Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga, with the support of Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol, has participated in the fifth edition of the International Tourism Fair FINE #winetourismismmarket, which this year has gathered in Valladolid more than a hundred wineries and Wine Routes of Spain, Portugal and Italy along with specialized tour operators from 23 countries.

Promote the province of Malaga and especially its tourism potential from the point of view of Enogastronomy, has been the main objective of the presence of the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga in this event, in which meetings have been held with 38 tour operators from 14 countries, highlighting in number of contacts, the outbound destinations of USA, Portugal, United Kingdom and Mexico.

In addition to highlighting the rich landscape of our territories, the high quality of the wines produced in our province and the supply and sustainability of our wine tourism, each of our different wine-growing areas has been associated with the enogastronomic, cultural and natural tourist attractions of these areas, highlighting other provincial resources: oletourism, Malaga goat, cheeses, cured meats, vegetable garden and tropical products, without forgetting the Malaga raisin, a unique product that is part of the Important Systems of the World Agricultural Heritage, declared by the FAO.

In addition to the business meetings held in the business area, during these two days promotional material of the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga, and the Guide “Unique Experiences of Gastronomic Tourism Routes with a Taste of Malaga” published by Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol has been delivered.

The Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga organizes the first wine tourism festival in the province of Malaga “Descorcha Experience”.

More than 200 people participated in the first wine tourism festival in the province of Malaga “Descorcha Experience” held this Saturday, December 9, with free experiences that have highlighted the heritage and wine culture of Malaga.

The event, sponsored by Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol, has been launched by the Association for the Development of Viticulture and Wine Tourism of Ronda and Malaga through the draw of dozens of experiences in social networks in which thousands of users have shown interest.

Tastings, visits to vineyards and wineries, gatherings, food and wine pairing and many other activities that combine gastronomy, culture and tourism have been carried out in the towns that make up the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga, which brings together five wine production areas: Axarquia, Serrania de Ronda, Manilva, Montes de Malaga and North Zone of Malaga.

The experiences have been developed in the wineries BadMan Wines (Ronda), Carpe Diem (Mollina), Doña Felisa (Ronda), A. Muñoz Cabrera -Dimobe- (Moclinejo), Excelencia (Ronda), Huerto de la Condesa (Ronda), Kieninger (Ronda), La Capuchina (Mollina), La Melonera (Ronda), Lunares (Ronda), Nilva Enoturismo (Manilva) and Quitapenas (Málaga); the restaurants Araboka Plaza (Málaga), El Descorche (Málaga) and Restaurante Pedro Romero (Ronda); the Málaga Wine Museum; and with the leisure company Milamores (Ronda).

The president of the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga, José María Losantos, celebrates the great interest shown by locals and visitors in this event, as well as invites more public to continue knowing “the quality and wealth of the province in the field of wine tourism”.

Malaga City Council joins the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga

Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol sponsors this event to be held on December 9, offering free wine tourism experiences throughout the province of Malaga.

The Association for the Development of Viticulture and Wine Tourism of Ronda and Malaga, the entity that manages the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga, organizes on December 9 the first wine tourism festival in the province of Malaga “Descorcha Experience”. The event, sponsored by Turismo y Planificación Costa del Sol, offers free experiences to discover Malaga’s wine heritage and culture.

Tastings, visits to vineyards and wineries, gatherings, food and wine pairing and many more activities that combine gastronomy, culture and tourism will be held in several of the towns that make up the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga, which brings together four wine production areas: Axarquia, Serrania de Ronda, Manilva, Montes de Malaga and North Zone of Malaga.

The president of the Wine Route of Ronda and Malaga, José María Losantos, invites locals and visitors to participate in this event that “highlights the wealth of the province in the field of wine tourism and recognizes the variety and quality of the offer of wine growers, winemakers and companies working around the wine”.

Participating in the event are the wineries BadMan Wines (Ronda), Carpe Diem (Mollina), Doña Felisa (Ronda), A. Muñoz Cabrera -Dimobe- (Moclinejo), Excelencia (Ronda), Huerto de la Condesa (Ronda), Kieninger (Ronda), La Capuchina (Mollina), La Melonera (Ronda), Lunares (Ronda), Nilva Enoturismo (Manilva) and Quitapenas (Málaga); the restaurants Araboka Plaza (Málaga), El Descorche (Málaga) and Restaurante Pedro Romero (Ronda); the Málaga Wine Museum; and the leisure company Milamores (Ronda).

All the experiences of the event can be consulted on the website rutavinorondamalaga.com/descorchaexperience and on the social networks of the Ronda and Malaga Wine Route where you can access these experiences by participating in sweepstakes.