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DAY 8

Rioja (Laguardia)

- Guided visit to Laguardia

- Visit to wineries

- Dolmen´s Route

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> Tour of the medieval city with a guide. Later we get the bus, travelling through a landscape of vineyards to visit one of the wineries with the most avant-garde architecture. From the outside we see only a glass box, perfectly integrated into its surroundings. This winery is a pioneer in using a gravity flow winemaking process. There are no grape hoppers or pumps to push the wine into the tanks: the whole process takes place in its 7 underground levels.


> Once we have taken the tour and tasted their wines, we won’t leave the building yet: the winery has a restaurant on its sixth floor with magnificent

views over miles of vineyards. Here we will enjoy a tasting menu comprising the best pairings of their wines with excellent seasonal products from the region. 


> After relaxing around the table enjoying the view of the vineyards, the next item on our agenda is a visit to the estate of one of Rioja’s most renowned wines, steeped in various centuries of history and culture. It is a classical winery, and practices organic wine production.


>There, the owner will have prepared a tour that includes enology, history and culture. We will go by foot to see a 10th-century necropolis in the middle of the vineyards, a wine cellar cut into the rock...

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