Abadia Retuerta Harvest and Pago Exploration Experience ★ 4.9
At Abadia Retuerta LeDomaine, harvest season brings guests into the picking and selection process across the estate's various pago vineyards.
Hands-on blending experience at Bodegas Legaris. Guests taste individual-barrel samples of Tempranillo from different parcels and oak types, then blend their own Reserva-style wine with guidance from the winemaking team.
Address: Ctra. Penafiel-Encinas de Esgueva Km. 2,5, Curiel de Duero, Valladolid, Spain, Ribera del Duero
At Abadia Retuerta LeDomaine, harvest season brings guests into the picking and selection process across the estate's various pago vineyards.
The Converso Experience package at Castilla Termal Monasterio de Valbuena combines accommodation, breakfast, thermal spa access, the Converso tasting (the hotel's own Tempranillo wine) and visits to nearby DO Ribera del Duero wineries. The 12th-century Gothic cloister and frescoed chapel provide an unmatched monastic backdrop for wine and wellness.
Guided tour of the 15th-century Penafiel Castle and the Provincial Wine Museum, concluding in the ground-floor tasting room with a guided sampling of DO Ribera del Duero wines.
Roast suckling lamb (lechazo asado) from IGP Lechazo de Castilla y Leon, cooked in a wood-fired oven at Asador Casa Florencio in Aranda de Duero.
The flagship wine experience of Ribera del Duero. Six stages take guests from vine to glass across the Pago de Carraovejas estate: vineyard walk, cellar architecture tour, fermentation hall, barrel room, sensory analysis and final tasting paired with Michelin-starred Ambivium dishes. The Grand Crus of Alma extended format adds single-pago vertical comparative tastings.
Electric bike tour of the 115-hectare Finca Villacreces estate in organic viticulture, set between the Duero river and bicentennial pines adjacent to Vega Sicilia.