October 25 and 26 Matavendimia wine festival and fiestas in Jumilla

Jumilla celebrates the end of grape-picking season with another year of top-drawer wines already being produced

October 25 and 26 Matavendimia wine festival and fiestas in Jumilla This year’s annual Matavendimia event in Jumilla, which is held to coincide (more or less) with the end of the grape harvest, is being held on 25^th and 26^th October in the Paseo del Poeta Lorenzo Guardiola and the car park of the municipal indoor swimming pool, due to the refurbishment work currently taking place at the indoor public market.

In order make it easier for people from other localities to attend a tourist bus service will be in operation offering transport to and from Murcia, Cartagena, Lorca and Caravaca, and among the activities they can enjoy, aside from the numerous wine tastings and musical performances, are others related to the journey of local grapes from the vineyards of the area into the bottles served at restaurants throughout the world-

The Ferio del Vino takes place all day from 11.00 onwards on the Saturday and from 11.00 to 17.00 on the Sunday, with numerous of the “DOP Jumilla” bodegas (wineries) taking part. Tickets will go on sale the week before the event on the website matavendimia.com: entry to the fair is free of charge and commemorative wine glasses are available at 3 euros each.

This is the 4^th time the Matavendimia has been held in Jumilla and it is now becoming one of the most important dates in the wine calendar of south-eastern Spain. Further details of the 2025 edition will be published here as and when they become available.

It is worth remembering that wine is known to have been produced in Jumilla as long ago as 3000 BC, among the earliest dates in Europe, and these days the vineyards are located at altitudes of between 320 and 980 metres above sea level. Around them are mountains reaching altitudes of 1,380 metres to the north, and the area in which DOP Jumilla wines are produced includes not only this municipality but also parts of Hellín, Montealegre del Castillo, Fuente Álamo, Ontur, Albatana and Tobarra.

In all there are over 20,000 hectares of wines, most of them non-irrigated, and 15 per cent of this area is accounted for by the old “pie franco” vines, those of the Monastrell strain which survived the Phylloxera vine pest in the 19^th century.

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Oficina de Turismo Jumilla

The tourist office in the centre of Jumilla is easily found by driving straight into the centre of the town along the Avenida de Murcia and following the signposts. The tourist office is alongside the Parque de Don Albano Martínez Molina, where there are a number of parking spaces.

Jumilla, in the north of the Region of Murcia, has become internationally famous over recent decades due to the quality of the wines produced in the municipality, and wine tourism has begun to attract visitors from other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe.

The tourist office is happy to provide a range of maps and leaflets showing the different bodegas which can be visited within the municipality. Some of these form part of the Rutas del Vino de Jumilla, the Jumilla wine route, and can either be visited as a guided tour or sell their produce directly to the public.(see feed below for more details)

However, the town and the surrounding countryside have plenty of other attractions for visitors, and the popularity of Jumilla wines is leading more and more people to discover other facets of the tenth largest municipality in Spain.

Jumilla Tourist Office

These include the spectacular countryside and birdlife in the Sierra del Carche, the historic remains which range from cave paintings and a Roman mausoleum to the castle, the Iglesia de Santiago, the Town Hall and the Teatro Vico, and the gastronomy: rich stews are accompanied not only by the wines of the area but also by Jumilla pears, which also enjoy Denomination of Origin status.

Tourism in Jumilla is not as seasonal as it is in the coastal areas of the Region of Murcia, but the town is at its liveliest during the fiestas in Holy Week and the August Fair, which incorporates the grape harvest celebrations and the Moors and Christians parades.

The Altiplano of the Region of Murcia, which consists of the municipalities of Jumilla and Yecla, is only just over an hour by car from the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Mazarrón, Torrevieja and Alicante, and anyone wishing to visit real inland Spain and world-class wineries is advised to include Jumilla in their schedule.