Our vineyards on deep and steep mountains, almost impassable heights and vertiginous slopes generated great amazement and inspiration at an international level.

Originally from Lower Saxony, and in particular from the city of Leer in Northern Germany, the first members of the Gross family began to establish their residence In the romantic and cosmopolitan Málaga at the end of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century, a time in which the city would experience a great economic reconversion, becoming an Industrial power with great importance in textile, metallurgical activity and the wine trade, in which the existence of up to 113,000 hectares of vineyards by the mid-19th century is attested.

Such as the Gross, the Krauel or the Scholtz, who amassed great fortunes and formed in Malaga a bourgeoisie and business class without known precedents.

The Málaga wines produced by the Gross family were shipped and exported to different markets all around the world…reds, whites and sweet wines were officially recognized as products of the Court of Isabel II, and sold along with spirituous liquors that were awarded up to five gold medals, as in the Málaga Local exhibition of 1862, Amsterdam of 1869 or consecutively in Philadelphia, 1879 and 1880.

Soon, that industrial and harvesting diaspora of our city would be affected by a series of tragic events such as the arrival of phylloxera (1878) to the Malaga vineyards, a small insect that caused illness and destroyed 90% of the provincial vineyard area, added to the subsequent world and civil wars, which resulted in the collapse of exports of Malaga products and the closure of many wineries, including those of the Gross family in 1972.