A town of the Condado de Huelva, one of the main wine centres of the DO Condado de Huelva. Resettled after the Castilian conquest of 1253 by Alfonso X, it was a lordship of the Guzmán family (house of Medina Sidonia); 'Par del Condado' means 'near the county' of Niebla.
tradition of trade with Seville, 14th–15th centuries; monumental bodegas, last third of the 18th century; cooperative 1956The wines of Bollullos that Seville could not stop
In the wine-making memory of the Condado it is said that, after the Christian resettlement of the 14th century, the wines of Villalba, Bollullos, Almonte and La Palma became so famous that Seville passed ordinances to protect its own wine, and even so the wines of the Condado kept finding their way into its market. Later, from the Condado de Niebla, through the ports of Palos and Moguer, came the wines that supplied the ships bound for the Indies. For Bollullos, the great moment came at the end of the 18th century: the export trade made it possible to build, beside the streams, a group of monumental bodegas that local historians call the “wine cathedrals of Bollullos”. Today the town preserves several dozen of these bodegas from the 18th to the 20th centuries and is the administrative capital of Condado wine.
Alive today: Bollullos is home to the Regulatory Council of the DOP Condado de Huelva, recognised in 1933, and to the Centro del Vino del Condado. In September, its fair in honour of the Virgen de las Mercedes includes events celebrating wine, and in October it holds the Semana de la Viticultura y Enología (24th edition in 2025), with tastings and routes through historic bodegas. It produces fortified wines, Zalema whites and orange wine.