Ronda wineries: visits, booking and wine tours

Ronda’s wineries are small bodegas scattered in the hills around the town, and nearly all of them need booking ahead. We found seven that take visitors and publish their booking rules: Bodega Doña Felisa, Descalzos Viejos, Cortijo Los Aguilares, Bodega Kieninger, La Melonera, Bodega Gonzalo Beltrán and Bodegas Excelencia. Only one place lets you simply turn up: La Melonera’s wine bar.

Two of them are at Los Frontones, which La Melonera’s address places on the road between Ronda and Setenil de las Bodegas, the rock village 19 km away. A winery fits neatly into a Setenil day.

Ronda wineries at a glance

From each winery’s own website, checked October 2026.

Winery	Where	How to book	When
Doña Felisa (Finca Chinchilla)	Cordel del Puerto al Quejigal, Ronda	Online	Mon to Fri 11:30, Sat and Sun 11:00
Doña Felisa (Viña Amaya)	MA-7402 road, km 9.2	Online	Wed to Sun, 11:00 or 13:30
Descalzos Viejos	Former convent below the Tajo gorge	Email, phone or WhatsApp	Arranged with you
Cortijo Los Aguilares	Ronda to Campillos road, km 35	Phone, WhatsApp or email; booking essential	Mon to Fri 10:00 to 17:00, Sat morning on request
Bodega Kieninger	Los Frontones	Online, email or WhatsApp	Times shown when you book
La Melonera	Los Frontones, Ronda to Setenil road	Online for visits; wine bar needs no booking	Not published
Gonzalo Beltrán	Finca La Nogalera, below the Tajo	Phone, email or WhatsApp	Arranged with you
Bodegas Excelencia	Cordel del Puerto a El Quejigal	Phone, in advance	Arranged with you

We have left prices out because they change. Each winery shows its current rates when you book.

What Ronda wine is

The wines here come under the DO Sierras de Málaga, the Málaga province denomination of origin. Wines grown entirely around Ronda can add the subzone name “Serranía de Ronda” to the label. The Junta de Andalucía’s rules for the DO set out what makes the subzone different:

• Where: the municipalities of Ronda, Arriate, Atajate, Benadalid, Benarrabá, Cortes de la Frontera, Cuevas del Becerro and Gaucín.
• Height and soil: vineyards at 600 to 1,000 metres, on limestone slopes, with colder winters, regular snow and later harvests than the coast.
• Harvest: by hand, in boxes holding 30 kg at most.
• Yield: no more than 9,000 kg of grapes per hectare.

Wine around Ronda is old, but the denomination is young. Sierras de Málaga was first protected in 2000 and is run by the Málaga wine council, set up in 1933. The same document notes that coins from Acinipo, the Roman town near Ronda, carried a bunch of grapes.

Most of the wines on these wineries’ lists are red. The rules allow Syrah, Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Petit Verdot, among others, plus Tintilla de Rota. For whites they allow grapes such as Chardonnay, Viognier and Pedro Ximénez.

Wineries that take visitors

Bodega Doña Felisa

The Chinchilla wines, from a project begun in 1999. Doña Felisa has two visit sites, both booked online. At Finca Chinchilla the shorter visit takes about 90 minutes: vineyard, winemaking rooms and three wines with tapas. A longer version with four wines and local food takes about two and a half hours. Viña Amaya runs four visits of 90 to 150 minutes from Wednesday to Sunday. Viña Amaya is on the MA-7402, the road to Acinipo, which a landslide cut further along in 2025, so check access when you book.

Descalzos Viejos

The most striking setting. The winery occupies a convent below the Tajo gorge, founded in 1505 by the Trinitarian order. The barefoot friars who later took it over moved closer to town in 1664, leaving the older ones to tend the orchards, which is where the name “Descalzos Viejos” comes from. Two families bought it in 1998 and restored it. Visits are in small groups, arranged in advance and led by the owners or the winemaker, in Spanish or English.

Cortijo Los Aguilares

North of town on the road towards Campillos, with vineyards at more than 900 metres. Its wines include a Pinot Noir. The site is blunt about booking: “Imprescindible reservar con antelación” (you must book ahead). Visits run Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 17:00, and on Saturday mornings by request. Closed Sundays and holidays.

Bodega Kieninger

A small organic winery on a 2.5-hectare estate at Los Frontones, making wine since the early 2000s, much of it from the Blaufränkisch grape. Choose a two-hour visit with the vineyard and four wines, or a one-hour tasting. Visits happen only with a booking, which you can cancel free up to 72 hours before. Children are welcome with an adult.

La Melonera

Also at Los Frontones, on the road from Ronda to Setenil, with vines between 650 and 940 metres. It has brought back old local grapes: Tintilla, Blasco, Rome and Melonera. There are three guided visits, booked online. One of them ends in a room hung with Picasso aquatints and works by Goya. Its wine bar and terrace serve tastings with no booking, the only walk-in option we found.

Bodega Gonzalo Beltrán

Vineyards at the foot of the Tajo, farmed organically along biodynamic lines. The visit is a 90-minute walk round Finca La Nogalera, then four wines with local tapas. There is no online booking; ask by phone, email or WhatsApp.

Bodegas Excelencia

A 90-minute guided visit through the vineyard and winery, ending with four wines and local snacks. Book ahead by phone. A visit with lunch is for groups of 15 or more.

Ronda wine tours

You need a driver for winery visits, which is the main argument for a tour. Our top pick is the small-group trip from Marbella: free time in Ronda, then two Serranía de Ronda wineries, eight wines and a tapas lunch, for seven people at most.

Coming from Málaga? Two of the popular Ronda and Setenil day trips include a lighter taste of local wine. One adds an optional wine and cured-meat tasting in Ronda; the other serves wine and local sweets facing the Puente Nuevo. A private half day from Marbella includes tapas with local wine. All four are at the foot of this page, and our tours page has the rest.

Pairing wineries with Setenil

Setenil’s name recalls the wineries it had before phylloxera, which reached Andalusia in the late 19th century, wiped out its vines. Wine is coming back there: the town hall says a small local industry has produced Setenil’s first reds in many years. For a booked tasting, though, the wineries near Ronda are easier.

Here’s a simple plan. Drive from Ronda to Setenil in the morning; it takes about 30 minutes. Walk the rock-roofed streets of Cuevas del Sol before the tour coaches arrive, then stop at Los Frontones on the way back for a tasting booked for the early afternoon. Our guide to getting to Setenil has the route and car parks.

Staying over makes all this easier. See where to stay in Ronda, and things to do in Ronda for the rest of the town.