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
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
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
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
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