 The neighboring town, Membrilla, was said in 1575 to have 1,000 residents, but based on the record of the tithes, it produced less wine that Solano, highlighting instead the products of the orchards situated in the plain of the river Azuer, which supplied La Solana.It is possible that the good wine from Membrilla that Miguel de Cervantes drank, and which would then appear in his Italian wine cellar, Licenciado Vidriera, was wine from La Solana.La Solana, like everything in Campo de Montiel, belonged to the Orden de Santiago.