The cultivation of vineyards in the region is documented (as in most of the Plateau) in the Middle Ages . Already in the thirteenth century the council of Zamora prevented the sale of wines Fermoselle in town to avoid the damage that meant their own wines. Until the eighteenth century Arribes wines had serious difficulty finding markets outside the neighboring villages of the peneplain, but the eighteenth century and especially the nineteenth mark a turnaround: we do not know what the reasons, the fact is that extending cultivation of cereal fields producing municipalities, so that you get to produce a wheat shortage and the resulting alarm councils. In the nineteenth century is such economic dependence vineyard, being affected by phylloxera it around 1870 , the ensuing crisis leads to large migration flows to South America to continue through the twentieth century . However the region recovers quickly from this disaster and early twentieth century is the first in the province of Zamora in being totally replanted with rootstocks Americans. By mid-century begin to build cooperative wineries that will sell most of the county came from then and today remain the main invigorate the sector.