Villafranca del Bierzo house running since 1982, with the cellar at Peña Picón and a separate tasting space, La Torre, in the town on Calle del Agua.
Tasting: Visitors received for tastings at La Torre on Calle del Agua in Villafranca del Bierzo.
Signature wines: casar-de-valdaiga-crianza, el-vino-de-los-consules-de-roma, valdaiga-x
Family house on the Fuentesnuevas to Villafranca road, bottling Godello and Mencía across the Silk and Velvet tiers plus an orange-style Godello.
Tasting: Visits arranged through the bodega's own booking section and telephone line.
Signature wines: adria-godello, adria-mencia, adria-silk, adria-velvet, adria-godello-orange
Pérez Caramés pours in La Torre, a 17th-century cellar on Villafranca's Calle del Agua, which also hosts the estate's paired dinners and concerts.
Named for the pilgrims' greeting in the Codex Calixtinus, a vinoteca and small hostal a few metres off Villafranca's Plaza Mayor.
The list: A stone-walled vinoteca pouring the wines of the vineyards that surround Villafranca, with rooms above for walkers stopping before Galicia
Pours: DO Bierzo Mencía, DO Bierzo Godello
Founded by Francisco El Guardia more than seventy years ago on the bank of the Valcarce, now run by the third generation with twelve rooms upstairs.
Pérez Caramés runs a year-round wine-culture programme out of La Torre on the Calle del Agua, from short tastings to paired dinners and concerts.
Villafranca's patronal week around 14 September, with the Cristo procession, the gigantes y cabezudos and the Escola de Gaitas, and a ronda de vinos along the Calle del Agua.
Tip: The ronda de vinos works the Calle del Agua from about 20:30 on the opening Friday, which is the street where the town's old cellars sit.
Swiss-run adults-only guesthouse above Villafranca with a pool, a terrace over the vineyards and tastings of its own esencial wine and olive oil.
The list: Tastings of the house esencial wine and olive oil for guests, with the estate's own diversified farming as the subject
On Villafranca's Plaza Mayor, minutes from the Calle del Agua bodegas and the Puerta del Perdón, with a 10 percent discount for direct bookings.
The list: Restaurant pouring Bierzo bottles with local cooking, a short walk from the Calle del Agua cellars
Seventeen rooms in a rambling old house on the Calle del Agua, with a grill restaurant 200 metres away across the Burbia.
The list: Sits on the Calle del Agua, the street that carries Pérez Caramés' La Torre cellar and the September ronda de vinos
Rooms on Villafranca's Plaza Mayor with a lift, an accessible room and free parking for bikes and motorbikes, useful on the Camino.
The list: Breakfast built on Bierzo produce, and a base two streets from the Calle del Agua cellars
A walk into the Las Gundiñas paraje above Villafranca, a talk on old goblet-trained Bierzo vines and a tasting in the Cabaña de los Pinos.
A walk through El Toleiro, the estate's organic vineyard, reading its flora and fauna by season, then the working cellar and three wines in La Torre.
Pérez Caramés has made organic wine at Villafranca del Bierzo since 1982, and its El Toleiro site runs to 32 hectares given over entirely to organic growing. The estate builds its visit around the vineyard's flora and fauna and how they change through the season, which is a more useful way of showing the farming than a certificate on a wall.
Tip: The two-hour Visita El Toleiro walks the organic vineyard before the tasting, and costs EUR 20 per person.