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History
Some country and old town's houses are the evidence of the wine tradition in Bullas. These houses still have family wine cellars located underground. A municipality's Act of October 1849 has interesting data which let us know the way of cultivating vines and the system of wine making, a real way of life in those times. Vintage was made very late in Bullas and it never started before the October Patronal Feast. Sometimes the Municipality banned this early vintage, so grapes were collected with a high degree of maduration and therefore with a high degree of sugar that the produced wines had a high volume of alcohol. Wine making took place in the particular cellars, own or rented, The produced amount was very big, so the surplus was exported to other towns (especially to Lorca and Totana) and even to other near provinces. The transport was made through the Camino Real (Royal Way) of Lorca with carts and mules or oxes, within wine skins.
Nowadays the wine industry of Bullas has modernized. Vines have been renewed, new grape varieties have been introduced, there are investments in technology and the Origin Denomination has been declared for the local wines. All that guarantees a neatly done elaboration and aging of the wines, regulated by strict rules for the wineries. There is a hard work everywhere to produce quality wines and increase competitivity. Transnational cooperation is especially active to surmount limitations and structural deficiencies and to promote the industry.
These changes have not prevented the fact that Bullas still preserves the tradictonal environment of an old times wine town: fermentation of grape juice, the popular 'migas' to celebrate the end of the wine making, the tasting of the just made wines, the tasting comments about their colours, aromas and flavours, the grapes 'health' during the vintage, the production and many other matters to share and tell the whole world inviting everybody to enjoy the wine culture in Bullas.