Savor the wines of Spain’s Ribera del Duero region during this 10-hour wine tasting trip with a flexible afternoon activity exploring Castile and León. Sample the diverse wineries of this Spanish ‘denominación de origen’ (official quality) region. After a mid-day lunch break, you’ll have the flexibility to explore local attractions like historic castles and medieval towns. 

Highlights 

• Explore the wines and castles of Spain's Ribera del Duero region during this full-day tour
• Enjoy included tastings of some of Spain's best red wines at a local winery 
• Get a taste for local Castile and León cuisine during lunch at a local restaurant (own expense) 
• Explore some of the area's numerous medieval towns and ancient castles 
• Included wine tastings and round-trip transport from Madrid 
• Great combination of wine and Spanish history 
• Small-group tour

What You Can Expect

Depart from central Madrid in the morning, continuing for approximately 2 hours to reach the winery which will host your tasting. You’ll reach the winery around mid-day. 

During your time at the winery, you’ll discover a variety of vintages as you savor a cross-section of the red wines raised in this famous region. You’ll also get a few tips about Ribera del Duero’s history as a wine region and learn about the typical wine styles produced by local winemakers. Then take a break for lunch in mid-afternoon (at your own expense), offering you the opportunity to pick a local restaurant where you can sample some of the typical cuisine of the Castile and León area. 

Following your lunch break, you’ll have the opportunity to enjoy a different range of potential activities in the area starting in the late afternoon. Depending on the case we might go to visit a second winery or/and, you might visit a charming medieval town or an ancient castle. Among the options are Peñafiel, Pedraza, Aranda de Duero, Segovia, Riaza, and Peñaranda, among other choices. You’ll return back to Madrid in the evening.

Details 

Inclusions 

• Entrance fees 
• Wine tasting 
• All activities 
• Small-group tour 
• Transport by air-conditioned minivan and coach 
• Local professional guide 

Exclusions 

• Food and drinks, unless specified 
• Gratuities (recommended) 
• Hotel pickup and drop-off 

Additional info 

• Minimum drinking age is 18 years 
• Dress code is smart casual 
• May be operated by a bilingual guide (Spanish and English) 
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Departure time 9:30 AM

What You Can Expect 

If you accept this activity, you will visit a remarkable winery in Don Quixote´s land, one of the most popular books in the history of literature thanks to the brilliant work from Miguel de Cervantes (a successful Spanish writer from the 17th century)

La Mancha is the the largest surface of vineyard in the world and is also considered as one of the best areas in Spain in order to grow high-quality grapes. Nowadays, some of the best Spanish companies  are now opening new wineries in such area and those initiatives are generating a lot of wealth and employment there.

According to the experts, the local producers have been improving its wineries by introducing the latest technological developments within the region they operate, as well as maintaining the oldest ones in order to satisfy the consumers´ needs. La Mancha can be considered as one of the most picturesque areas of Spain for that reason without forgeting other tourist attractions like the medieval town of Toledo, for example. There are also other historic medieval towns and villages we should consider such as Consuegra, Campo de Criptana and La Mota del Cuervo, all of them with amazing windmills, hiking trails and birdwatching facilities. And we will try to do it with a glass of wine in hand. We consider that things will be better with a glass of wine in hand.

We will also have lunch at some well-known restaurants where people can taste some typical dishes of this specific area. If you are interested in the Spanish way of life, you should definitely try its national food. If you want to carry out the same activities like the ones from the local people, you should eat the same recipes and visit some some interesting places there.

The tour Program

Depart from Madrid

Guided visit to winery.

Lunch.

Activity in the afternoon

Depart to Madrid.

Details 

Inclusions 

• Wine tasting
• Entrance fees
• All activities
• Small group tour
• Transport by air conditioned vehicle
• Local Professional Guide

Exclusions 

• Food and drinks, unless specified
• Lunch
• Gratuities (Recommended)

Additional info 

• Minimum drinking age is 18 years 
• Dress code is smart casual 
• May be operated by a bilingual guide (Spanish and English) 
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Departure time 9:30 AM

Savor Spain’s ‘good life’ during this flexible 10-hour wine tasting and sightseeing trip from Madrid. We will visit one of the numerous wineries located near Madrid for a tasting session. You’ll follow your wine experience with a tapas or set-menu lunch (own expense) before embarking on a flexible afternoon sightseeing trip to discover some of the local area’s castles, medieval cities or cathedrals.

Highlights 

Discover some of Spain's celebrated wines during this full-day tasting tour and sightseeing trip 
Savor a few glasses of wine during a visit to one of the many top-notch vineyards near Madrid 
Enjoy some tapas or a set-menu lunch at a local restaurant (own expense) 
Spend the afternoon on a flexible excursion to visit nearby castles, medieval towns or cathedrals 
Great way to pair wine tasting with Spanish history and sightseeing 
Small-group tour by minibus.


What You Can Expect 

A toast in the tasting room of a wonderful winery. Depart from central Madrid in the morning, to reach the selected winery which will host your tasting. You’ll reach the winery around mid-day. 

During your time at the winery, you’ll discover a variety of vintages as you savor a cross-section of the celebrated wines from one of Spain’s top growing regions. Then take a break for lunch in mid-afternoon (at your own expense), offering you the opportunity choose from tasty options like tapas or one of Spain’s famous ‘set-menu’ lunch meals. 

Following your lunch break, you’ll have the chance to select from a number of potential activities in the area starting in the late afternoon. Depending on what you decide, you might check out any number of charming medieval towns, ancient castles, or elegant cathedrals. You’ll return back to Madrid in the evening.

Details 

Inclusions 

• Wine tasting
• Entrance fees
• All activities
• Small group tour
• Transport by air conditioned vehicle
• Local Professional Guide

Exclusions 

• Food and drinks, unless specified 
• Gratuities (recommended) 
• Hotel pickup and drop-off 

Additional info 

• Minimum drinking age is 18 years 
• Dress code is smart casual 
• May be operated by a bilingual guide (Spanish and English) 
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Departure time 9:30 AM

What You Can Expect 

Everything is more beautiful with a glass of wine in hand.

A very nice approach to know a country is to do it through its gastronomy and its wines. In Spain and in Madrid we have beautiful wines.

Enjoy a half day tour the wines and gastronomy of the surroundings of Madrid visiting fantastic wineries in a family atmosphere.

You will get to know beautiful stories and traditions while enjoying excellent wines and a beautiful experience. We will have some tapas between the visit to the first winery and the second.

We will start at 9 h and will be back at the same place at 14,30 h.

 

The tour Program

• Depart from Madrid , Hotel Claridge (Cafetería), Plaza del Conde de Casal 6, 28007 Madrid (see on map)

• Visit 2 wineries
• Tasting at least 6 wines
• Depart to Madrid.

Details 

Inclusions 

• Wine tasting
• Entrance fees
• All activities
• Small group tour
• Transport by air conditioned vehicle
• Local Professional Guide

Exclusions 

• Food and drinks, unless specified
• Lunch
• Gratuities (Recommended)

Additional info 

• Minimum drinking age is 18 years
• Dress code is smart casual
• May be operated by a bilingual guide (Spanish and English)
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Departure time 9:00 AM

What You Can Expect

Live an unforgettable experience visiting the amazing town of Segovia and its three most important
monuments: the Aqueduct, the Cathedral and the Alcazar. We previously visit a winery with very good wines and have lunch in a very good restaurant.

Segovia is an amazing town. It is unbelievable that such a small city could have 3 monuments that, any of them would be worth to be visited alone. It has been considered a city world heritage.

First. The Roman Aqueduct. A work from 2000 years ago that still stands as the first day. We are happy if a visitor tells us he does not have a concrete image of what he is going to find. He is the one to enjoy more in the tour. It allows us to act as if we were like David Copperfield making our visitors to have an impresion that maybe they will never forget in the rest of their lives.

We consider the building of the Aqueduct 2000 years ago a more impresive work that what man did in 1969 getting to the Moon. We try to make our visitors see how the ancient inhabitants of that area would feel when they saw that the Romans were building that authentic jewel.

And you get into this town crossing those arches and meet a town out of a dream. Much of it dedicated to being visited on foot in which each stone oozes history. Spain and Segovia are the unrepeatable consequence of their peculiar history, with influences of all those who passed  through these lands. Ancient Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, Arabs, Jews, French. They all left their mark there. And we, Spaniards are very proud about it.

After having visited the Aqueduct you might think that there is nothing more to see but when you come across the Cathedral you find it unique. You see it during the day, at night, on the  outside, inside. And no matter how you look at, you fall in love with it.

But there is even more. There is an amazing castle, the Alcazar. It is so formidable that Walt Disney himself was
inspired to design the Castle that appears in Snow White and 7 Dwarfs. In few words a fairy tale Castle.

Well. We see all that after having visited a fantastic winery in an area that is considered has some of the best wines of Spain. There we will taste its wines. Then we have lunch. We have the challenge that the winery and
lunch have to be at the same level as Segovia. (Lunch 25 euros additional aprox)


Wine will also be with us during our visit to Segovia. We strongly believe that everything is much nicer with a
glass of wine in hand.

Why should you come with us to this tour? Because of Segovia? The winery? Wines? Lunch? A combination of all that. One thing we know is that we are going to make our best to make you have an unforgettable experience. That is what we have been doing for years and that is what we are going to be doing in our next tour. Come with us.      

Details 

Inclusions 

• Entrance fees 
• Wine tasting 
• All activities 
• Small-group tour 
• Transport by air-conditioned minivan and coach 
• Local professional guide 

Exclusions 

• Food and drinks, unless specified 
• Gratuities (recommended) 
• Hotel pickup and drop-off 

Additional info 

• Minimum drinking age is 18 years 
• Dress code is smart casual 
• May be operated by a bilingual guide (Spanish and English) 
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Departure time 9:30 AM

What You Can Expect 

In the mid-sixteenth century, the Spanish King Philip II decided that the capital of Spain would
be Madrid. He did so to take power away from the church and the nobles. That was bad for the economies of several towns in Madrid. But we, in the 21st century, are fortunate because we can see those towns as they were many
centuries ago.

This is the case of Avila. Avila has the best preserved medieval Wall of Europe. Visiting that city and walking over the Wall is a great pleasure because you can believe that you are a soldier in the year 1200 and the Wall is in perfect conservation.

We will also enter the Cathedral,  one of the most beautiful cathedrals in Spain. That cathedral is part of the medieval Wall.

Then we Will have the privilege of looking at the city from the outside. Many times we can do it during sunset or maybe when the darkness has arrived . The city looks even more beautiful lit by thousands of lights. A
compelteley different town.

But in our journey wine is also the other protagonist of the tour. That's why we visit first, the city of Rueda, not far from Avila with beautiful wineries and attractive wines, some of them with  incredible facilities and stories as attractive as the city of Avila. After having visited the winery and tasting the wines we will have a quick lunch (tapas and wine) (15 euros additional) to have enough time to enjoy everything we can of the town of Ávila.

On this tour, there is sometimes a debate about what is better. Whether visiting the wineries in Rueda or visiting Ávila later. And we always say that the best is the combination of both experiences, because we believe that everything is much more beautiful with a glass of wine in hand. (The wine that is in Rueda is white but we will have white and red wines on the tasting).

If you decide to come please tell us which is your  impression on that debate after what you have read, we try to make you know that this a pleasure for your eyes, but also for your taste and smell with the beautiful wines that we are going to taste, but also with the stories you will hear. Our goal is to make you stop with emotion and in this way make you enjoy with the 5 senses.

Tell us at the end of the tour if we have achieved it because that is our best price. 

 We will visit Rueda, an important area where you can find out the most popular white wine in Spain. If you visit the village of Rueda, you will believe that you are visiting a typical western village with a single high street.

The kind of wine they ellaborate there is called “Vino Blanco con uvas de verdejo” (“White vine with verdejo grapes” in English) This grape is so special and once you taste it, you will not forget its flavour and taste” Wine is the most impressive thing that visitors will find out in Rueda and everyone can see the underground caves that were built there in the last centuries. According to the experts, the local wine producers only had this option in order to keep its final products in safe places during the whole year by digging into the earth and having the wine resting there before bottling.

New and improved techniques were introduced later, but the majority of the wineries were closed in the 50s and 60s and the few that remained in the same place bought the undergorund caves to those people who sold their properties to
the rest of the producers. Nowadays, visitors can see some endless galleries that are owned by two of the most important wineries in Rueda. In addition, there are several stunning medieval places near Rueda such as Tordesillas, Ávila, Olmedo and Medina del Campo, among other examples. Its cultural legacy is outstanding and a large nimber of people will learn more useful facts about Spain and its old kingdoms by visiting some old castles, cathedrals, churches and other relevant monuments.

At Winebus we would like to get new nice stories from other people and we believe that their feedback can be better if we listen to them with a good wine glass in hand, and that is actually what we try to do after finishing our activities in other Spanish regions. 

The tour Program

• Depart from Madrid
• Guided visit to winery.
• Lunch.
• Activity in the afternoon
• Depart to Madrid.

Details 

Inclusions 

• Wine tasting
• Entrance fees
• All activities
• Small group tour
• Transport by air conditioned vehicle
• Local Professional Guide

Exclusions 

• Food and drinks, unless specified
• Lunch
• Gratuities (Recommended)

Additional info 

• Minimum drinking age is 18 years 
• Dress code is smart casual 
• May be operated by a bilingual guide (Spanish and English) 
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Departure time 9:30 AM

Toledo wine tour program

• Depart from Madrid
  , Hotel Claridge (Cafetería), Plaza del Conde de Casal 6, 28007
  Madrid (see on map)


• Winery guided visit.


• Lunch.


• Segovia visit.


• Depart to Madrid.

What You Can Expect

What is better? Visit a beautiful winery? Have some great
wines? Visiting a city with the most beautiful and richest history in the
world? Listening to a wonderful story about one of the most beautiful and
richest cities in the world told by someone with great knowledge and who knows
how to tell incredible stories? Enjoy in the same day in that city of ... rain
to the pitchers ..., then a sun in abundance in a clean sky by the previous
rains ..., more rain, a hail of scandal, and again sun?

Enjoy that new sun from an incredible terrace with one of
the most beautiful landscapes that can be seen in an incredible city? I don't
know which is better. Okay, yes. It is better to enjoy all of the above on the
same day. That is what has happened to us in the winebus today. If you were
there with us, congratulations. If you were not, you have missed something
spectacular.

These things don't happen if you stay in the big city. These
things, at least, do not happen to me. And if they happen to me I don't know
what happens, because when I am in the big town I fo nogt have my senses so
awaken. But wide awake on a trip like this. You will have to wait for the next
winebus. And may you will be as lucky as the participants of this tour have
bee. Because, so far all the winebus tours have been downright good. But what
happened this time it has been memorable.

We invite you to come with us to make this day tour, from
Tuesday to saturday

I do not know if it will be sunny or rainy. It does not
matter the weather if you leave the big city.

Come visit one of the most beautiful cities in the world,
with an incredible history.

We propose you do it with us. We propose you to do the
Toledp Wine Tour with a glass of wine in hand

Details 

Inclusions 

• Wine tasting


• Entrance fees


• All activities


• Small group tour


• Transport by air
  conditioned vehicle


• Local Professional Guide

Exclusions 

• Food and drinks, unless
  specified


• Lunch


• Gratuities (Recommended)

Additional
info 

• Minimum drinking age is 18
  years


• Dress code is smart casual


• May be operated by a
  bilingual guide (Spanish and English)


• Not wheelchair accessible
• Departure time 9:30 AM

Toledo Consuegra day trip from Madrid Last Minute

This is a tour that we are extremely proud of.

We want to show our visitors two of the places with the most well-known history of Spain in the world.

We refer to the visit of Consuegra and Toledo.

Visit Consuegra for so many reasons.

Consuegra is famous for its Roman past of 2000 years ago, It is attractive to see its Roman past. Anyway, one comes to Consuegra looking for more than its Roman past are its windmills, it is an unbeatable state of conservation with dreamlike views.

You can see windmills in other places but Consuegra is somehow special.

There are other groups of windmills in La Mancha that compete with Consuegra in beauty and history. Personally, I consider that the view that one can have from the Consuegra mills is unforgettable.

When you look from up there you can see infinity. That is also seen in the sea with the difference that in that case, everything is blue.

In Consuegra, one can see that infinity but with many other colors that mix as if they were the palette of an abstract art painting. There are reds, blues, brown greens…, Everything is mixed before our eyes.

It doesn’t matter what the weather is like. If it is sunny because it is sunny and if it is cloudy because the clouds also give the area a very attractive appearance.

A 10th-century castle in the middle of the windmills. 

There is also a 10th-century castle in Consuegra that competes in prominence with the windmills. Consuegra and Toledo were the border between the Christian and Muslim world in the year 1000. This castle reminds us of it. One realizes that this castle changed hands several times despite its impregnable appearance. And one is told that the son of El Cid, the most famous of the Spanish medieval warriors, was killed here in a battle.

Coming to Consuegra can give you to understand what went through Cervantes’s head when he wrote Don Quixote, or you may not understand anything and push you to come more times to understand the secrets that La Mancha is showing to its more patient visitors.

After visiting Consuegra we turn to Madrid to meet Toledo.

Then we go to Toledo

In Toledo, there is a lot to see. You can dedicate a couple of days to it and it will still seem like little, but there is so much to see in Spain that I understand the people who decide to divide the day between Consuegra and Toledo and this tour is designed for this type of people.

We will spend a few hours in Toledo to visit its streets, learn about its history, its cathedral and learn about the work of El Greco, one of the most brilliant painters in history.

You will be able to see its winding and narrow streets, its Christian past, its importance as the capital of the Visigothic kingdom, its Arab and Jewish influence, to the point that it is called the city of the three cultures. Some call it the Constantinople of the West.

We mean that if you are in Turkey you should visit Istanbul, but if you are in Spain not visiting Toledo would be a sacrilege

Consuegra and Toledo, a great combination.

Program:

9:30 h Departure from Madrid.

11 h Arrival in Consuegra and visit of the Windmills and Consuegra Castle.

12.30 h We go to Toledo

13.30 h. We have lunch in Toledo

15 h Guided tour of Toledo

18.30 h Panoramic wiew of the city from the other side of the river

19 h Departure for Madrid.

20 h Arrival in Madrid, Plaza del Conde de Casal.