Rioja wine tour with a private guide
This full day tour combines wine tastings in the world renowned Rioja area with lunch in a local restaurant, home made real food, not touristy!
3 wineries to be discovered on the Tour.
Best way to see the contrast between the ancient way of making wine, a modern luxury winery, and a boutique top 90+ Parker points wines tasting!
At Your Hotel
Pick up at your hotel in San Sebastian
3 wineries to be discovered on the Tour.
Best way to see the contrast between the ancient way of making wine, a modern luxury winery, and a boutique top 90+ Parker points wines tasting!
The tour is designed to guide you into one of the oldest traditional «cave-cellars» in the area, dug 7-8 meters deep under the houses, hidden and unique experience and oportunity not to be missed!!
Walk beside the vineyard, take amazing photos, admire visiting-tasting wines in the most famous local beautiful wineries, «Marques del Riscal» cellar ( designed by Frank Gehry, the architect who designed the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao)!
Walking tour along the medieval streets of Laguardia, one of the most charming towns in La Rioja area before discovering local home made food. Lunch in an off the track local restaurant, not touristy and real home made food!
Explore the Rioja wine valley and region in 5 hours relaxed tour.
Return to your hotel in San Sebastian
At Your Hotel
What’s Included:
Private air conditioned transport.
Private driver service
Private small group
Wine tastings
English, Spanish and Basque speaking local and private guide.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
Entrance fees to the wineries
All transport expenses, such as toll roads, petrol & parking fees.
Hotel pick up and drop off.
What’s Extra:
Other food and drinks
All my tours are completely flexible so I could adapt them to any need or willing.
Minimum drinking age is 18 years.
Food options are available for any kind of people.
Between 10-12 wines.
Local home made real food, out of the touristy route. Plenty of options are offered. Not fixed restaurants or meals, all flexible and adapted to your need or wish. Options could be discused on the tour, no rush to decide.
Charles B.
Our day with Iker was perfect. He organized our trip exactly the way we asked for and was extremally accommodating (i.e. stopping to look at something in a place that was originally not scheduled) He was extremally knowledgeable about local culture, local history, local food, etc. We had a wonderful day out!!! 10/10 for Iker
Thank you so much for your review!! Really appreciated Best regards from San Sebastian Iker
Alberto A.
Our private tour of the Rioja wineries with our guide Daniel Gonzales was fantastic. The wineries selected were beautiful offering excellent wines with very generous tasting. Daniel was very knowledgeable of the Rioja region and wines in general. Daniel also provided some great restaurants to try in San Sebastián and Barcelona. His recommendations did NOT disappoint! The lunch provided with the tour was equally impressive. A truly traditional experience of local cuisine! The family had a great experience. Highly recommend this tour and ask for Daniel!
Thank you for your review Alberto. It was a pleasure to guide you in Rioja. Best regards from your Basque guides in San Sebastian Iker
Daniel D.
What a wonderful Pintxos tour with Iker! He is so knowledgeable and personable with his clients. The food, the wine, the hospitality was perfect!
Thanks so much for your review Daniel Hope to see you soon back again in San Sebastian Iker
Tony V.
This was an independent tour for two. Lker was a professional tour guide who is proud of this Basque heritage and insured that he toured the tour to our desires and our pace. It was interesting to listen to Lker tell and showed how the museum initially impacted upon the Bilbao community, but how it continually does. Lker do not only showed us the inside of the museum but explained and showed how the building moves throughout the day with the changing light and Gehry's version and interpretation his inspiring architectural design. We travelled by vehicle and foot through the markets and the old city and Lker advised us of Basque traditions (food and culture) and answered all our questions (many). He is a safe driver and the vehicle was clean. Would recommend tour and worth its cost. You cannot get that knowledge, passion and commitment from reading Google reviews
Thank you very much for your review!! Glad to read that you enjoyed so much. Hope to see you soon back in San Sebastian or Bilbao Best regards Iker Bardaji