The history of Samaniego is tied to that of the wine. The implantation of vineyards and wine-culture can be attributed to the Romans and, after centuries of uncertainty and uproars, is at the end of XV century when it comes a long period of peace and stability, posing the perfect ground for wine harvesting. Evetually, it would become a monoculture.
One of the worst years was 1585, when a plague of maggots, the philoxera, invaded the vineyards and it became mandatory to repel them using the ancient methods of that age: exorcisms and rituals. The wine making process had, during this period, a lot of religious implications. It’s not a surprise then that a respectable local church-man, Don Manuel Quintano y Quintano, spent the wine harvesting time of 1786 in the Medoc region so he could learn the bordelesse methods, so he could apply them later in his own homeland.