Wine Tours in Rioja Region, Spain

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Wine tours are a special experience. On our wine tours you'll enjoy special visits to cutting-edge wineries, have private tastings at top cellars, you'll discover great wines.
You'll meet the winemakers and the owners of great chateaux, enjoy gourmet food and have superb tastings. (Things like that do not happen if you just turn up at a chateau or winery).
Most of the visits we do, are to cellars that usually do not host tourists, thus the number of visitors are small.

Wine day in Haro - Rioja

Wine Tasting and Gastronomy Weekend in La Rioja

Wine Weekend in Haro

La Rioja Alavesa

The thirteen thousand hectares of La Rioja Alavesa form one of the more prestigious wine-producing regions of the world. Its situation and its landscape make it a perfect place for the culture of the grapevine. The vast areas of vineyard at the shore of the Ebro, are protected by mounts of the Cantabria mountain range, forming therefore a peculiar Mediterranean microclimate with an Atlantic influence.

This microclimate, along with the type of ground, the structure of staggered slopes, the location and the traditional grape harvest, give the wines of La Rioja Alavesa their own personality, with a recognized guarantee of origin. The regulating council allows seven varieties of grape: Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo for red wine and Viura, Garnacha Blanca and Malvasía in white wines, though Tempranillo is the most popular variety. The elaboration is by the traditional method, known technically as carbonic maceration.

he cultural heritage of the region also deserves a special mention: from dolmens, traces of prehistoric cultures, to gothic and baroque churches or walled medieval towns. Also, the Basque gastronomy so recognized internationally has singularities in Álava: the season products, the meats and vegetables of an inland gastronomy, or the abundant use of garden products.

Wine day in Haro - Rioja

The efforts for promoting Rioja wine, which have been done from Haro, started a long time ago. As well as champagne had its clergyman Don Perignon, and Bordeaux had its abbot Rozier, in Haro’s wine was significant another clergyman, Quintano de La Bastida. But what it has characterized Haro as Rioja capital are natural conditions, whose first expression is its wines and men who are oriented to a total enological operation, producing grapes, making wine, maturing and bottling.

Program

9 AM: Guided Visit in English of a top cellar, followed by a wine tasting

11.30 AM: Guided Visit in English to a second cellar, followed by a wine tasting

14 PM: 'Menu Degustation' in a restaurant in Haro

This Menu includes:
- 2 aperitifs
- 3 first courses
- 1 fish dish
- 1 meat dish
- 1 pre-dessert
- 1 dessert
- Wine matched with the dishes

End of our services

Price includes:
• Two guided visits in english to two different cellars followed by Wine Tasting
• A 'Menu Degustation' in a local restaurant
• Wine matched with the dishes

Not Included:
• Transport to / from Haro
• Transfers in Haro
• Optional tips, expenses and meals
• All which is not specified in the itinerary

Other tours in Rioja Region

Wine Tasting and Gastronomy Weekend in La Rioja

Like wine, friendship requires a maturation process, constant care and attention. We invite you to join us on a walk through our wineries in La Rioja, where you will be able to discover some of the secrets of our wines. We will also present you the Old Winery Don Cosme Palacio, our unique hotel located in Laguardia, an essential stop in the Wine Route.

To speak of Laguardia is to speak of wine. The colour of its landscapes, its history and the life of its people keep a very close relationship with it; a proof of this is its wine production (about 12 million litres yearly).
A group of factors gather in La Rioja Alavesa, which make its wines well known all over the world. These factors are its geographic location, its climate, its land and its types of grapes.
The grapevine is a plant that adapts itself to the soil and climate of the area in a perfect way. Sudden changes in the temperature, moderate rainfall, argillo-calcareous soil (cambisol cálcico) and its southern location ('carasol') result in very high quality wine, which is supported by the oldest appellation d’origine in Spain.

Program highlights

2 nights accommodation for 2 people in an old winery hotel in the heart of the most famous wine region of Spain, la Rioja Alavesa
Wine tasting course
Welcome supper

Programme

Day 1:
Arrival in the afternoon by your own to Laguardia. Welcome dinner in the hotel and accommodation .

Day 2:
Breakfast at the hotel. Wine tasting course and lunch at the hotel. Afternoon free to visit Laguardia. Dinner on your own. Accommodation at the hotel.

Day 3:
Breakfast at the hotel and day on your own.
end of our services.

The rates include:
• 2 nights accommodation with breakfast in a double room
• 1 welcome dinner at the hotel
• 1 wine tasting course
• 1 Lunch at the hotel.

The rates do not include:
• Transport to / from Laguardia
• Tips, optional excursions, expenses and meals

Other tours in Rioja Region

Wine Weekend in Haro

Program

Day 1:
Arrival on Friday evening at Haro. Free dinner and night. Accommodation in a four-star hotel.
Day 2:
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Guided Visit in English of a Rioja cellar, followed by a wine tasting
Gourmet Menu in a local restaurant This Menu includes:
- 2 aperitifs
- 3 first courses
- 1 fish dish
- 1 meat dish
- 1 pre-dessert
- 1 dessert
Wine matched with the dishes
- Guided Visit in English of a local cellar, followed by a wine tasting
- Return to the hotel. . Free dinner and night. Accommodation in a four-star hotel.
Day 3:
Breakfast at the hotel and free day to visit the surroundings.

Price includes:
• Guided visits in English of two cellars, followed by a wine tasting in each one
• Gourmet menu in a local restaurant
• Wines matched with the dishes
• 2 nights of accommodation in a four-star hotel with breakfast

Not Included:
• Transport to / from Haro
• Transfers in Haro
• Optional tips, expenses and meals
• All which is not specified in the itinerary

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The thirteen thousand hectares of La Rioja Alavesa form one of the more prestigious wine-producing regions of the world. Its situation and its landscape make it a perfect place for the culture of the grapevine. The vast areas of vineyard at the shore of the Ebro, are protected by mounts of the Cantabria mountain range, forming therefore a peculiar Mediterranean microclimate with an Atlantic influence.
	This microclimate, along with the type of ground, the structure of staggered slopes, the location and the traditional grape harvest, give the wines of La Rioja Alavesa their own personality, with a recognized guarantee of origin. The regulating council allows seven varieties of grape: Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo for red wine and Viura, Garnacha Blanca and Malvasía in white wines, though Tempranillo is the most popular variety. The elaboration is by the traditional method, known technically as carbonic maceration.
he cultural heritage of the region also deserves a special mention: from dolmens, traces of prehistoric cultures, to gothic and baroque churches or walled medieval towns. Also, the Basque gastronomy so recognized internationally has singularities in Álava: the season products, the meats and vegetables of an inland gastronomy, or the abundant use of garden products.