During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth Malvasia wine, produced on the Orotava Valley, took such a boom, that Puerto de la Cruz went on to become the first port of the Canaries and in priority area of foreign trade.
Many ships disembark at the dock of Puerto de la Cruz bound for the Peninsula, England, Netherlands, Germany, Africa and America. The booming trade with England, which resulted that in the harvest of 1,674 were 150 English ships anchored in front of the dock waiting for so coveted wines. Wine quality was imposed so the palaces of the principal European courts that there was always the Malvasia "that enlivens the senses and anoint the blood" in the words of Shakespeare. Goldoni, R. Stevenson, Walter Scott and Lord Byron also praised the canarian wines.
That justly famous and privileged geographical situation of the island, gave rise to a flourishing trade in wine has turned to the cultivation of the vine and the exportation of their wines in the main source of wealth of the archipelago.
From that time until about ten years, the cultivation of the vine is held and does not disappear because of the constancy of the farmer canary and the survival of the quality of the vines, which manages to maintain the loyalty of local consumers.
