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La Rioja Joven Vino y Cultura 299€

In order to get to know La Rioja, its history and its wines, you can take distance-learning courses, spend hours scouring the Internet, or, alternatively, you can come and spend 4 nights in Logroño... Not everything in La Rioja is about wine... And not every wine is from Rioja, but 4 nights spent in Logroño go a long way...

Day 1. Welcome to La Rioja

Logroño: capital of La Rioja, with its theatres, museums, churches, oh, and the most famous Tapas street in all of northern Spain...
Accommodation in a Logroño hotel, selected by Riojalive.

Afternoon

 

Optional

If you have come to La Rioja by plane we can arrange for you to be picked up from the airport, also visiting the city (Bilbao, Santander, Vitoria, Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona…) with local guides.

18:00

Museo Würth La Rioja

A museum is much more than the objects that it contains...

20:00

Logroño

Tour of Logroño, following in the footsteps of the pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago

Optional Dinner

21:00

Calle Laurel: route taking in Pinchos and Rioja wines

In Logroño, the evening always begins with a selection of Pinchos: a Champi del Soriano (mushroom), a Tío Agus (pork), some Embuchado sausage, an Orejita (fried pig's ear), a Cojonudo, one with pineapple, a Matrimonio (anchovies), etc, etc, etc.

A night of partying, Logroño style, according to the groups wishes

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Day 2. The tradition of Rioja

Morning

09:00

Small growers vineyards and cellar/p>

In La Rioja, every home used to have its own wine cellar, we pay attention to the whole process, from the vineyard to the bottle.

The Vineyard: Why is the wine from Rioja "the best"? The climate, the soil, the grape varieties... learn how the wine growers look after their vines so as to harvest the very highest quality grapes

The Brunch: Among vineyards

The Home Cellar: Feel the process as it is

Optional Lunch

14:00

Typical traditional Riojan lunch, served in a winery, with a chance to sample its wines

Afternoon

16:30

Nájera

The capital of the Kingdom of Navarra in the 10th century. Here is where its kings and queens were buried and where pilgrims were given a royal welcome in the monastery of Santa María la Real.

18:30

Santo Domingo de la Calzada

A town created, around a thousand years ago, to serve the pilgrims. Visit its cathedral and discover its legends and miracles, such as the hen that continued to cluck even after being roasted...

20:30

Beginners' wine-tasting course

White, rosé, young, crianza, reserva, gran reserva and designer, aftertaste, vanilla, floral bouquet, shimmering terracotta tones, a long finish…. Forget about the complicated jargon, it's all about sensations.

Optional Dinner

21:30

In La Rioja the art of eating well is high culture

We sample Rioja's finest ingredients with a mouth-watering spread in a restaurant within an old ancestral home

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DAY 3 / Avant-garde Rioja

Morning

09:40

A vineyard: Jardín de Baco

Estate with more than 200 varieties of vine planted in the entrance to the museum

10:00

A journey through the world of wine: Dinastía Vivanco museum, Briones

History, tradition, viticulture, wineries, trade, art, bouquet, wine casks… Probably the world's greatest wine museum

12:00

Visit to Bodegas Vivanco

Optional Lunch

14:30

Restaurant in the depths of a former winery in Briones

An enchanting medieval village of wineries and wine cellars, little squares, churches and spectacular views

Afternoon

17:00

Visit to a modern Rioja winery

Following the lines of a row of wine casks, Santiago Calatrava has created a work of art at the feet of the Sierra de Cantabria: natural and artistic beauty combined in the name of wine.

18:30

Visit to Laguardia

The nerve centre of La Rioja Alavesa, this is a walled village of palatial homes and a labyrinthine underground network of wine cellars dug out during the Middle Ages.

Optional Dinner

22:00

Wine-matching dinner in a modern Logroño

Restaurant, selected by Riojalive

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Day 4. Monasteries and vintage wineries

Morning

10:00

Yuso and Suso monasteries

UNESCO World Heritage sites. The origin of hermits, scribes and poets. Relive the history of Castilian Spanish through their ancient tomes

12:30

Monastery of Santa María de San Salvador. Cañas

Cistercian abbey, complete with a beautiful gothic church

Optional Lunch

14:30

Rioja Cooking in a Cellar

In 1596, wine was already being produced in the winery where we will sample a traditional Rioja menu, accompanied by reserva wines.

Afternoon

16:30

Rioja Cooking in a Cellar

In 1596, wine was already being produced in the winery where we will sample a traditional Rioja menu, accompanied by reserva wines.

18:00

Visit to Sonsierra

We visit towns such as San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Abalos, and Briones, with their mazes of underground wine cellars and their surrounding vineyards. Stone wineries, Romanesque hermitages, and landscapes of mountains and castles.

Optional Dinner

21:30

Carvery in Logroño

Dinner in one of the typical coal-kitchen restaurants of Logroño, with fish and meat dishes cooked to perfection

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Day 5 / Return journey

Morning

09:30

On the way home we can visit one last winery, so that you can say goodbye to La Rioja properly...

Accommodation and Breakfast in a previously selected hotel by Riojalive
Entrance and specialized guide in each cellar, museum or activity
Transport not included
VAT included · Price per person

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