You walk into the vineyard, go down to the barrel hall, hear how the wine you're about to drink is made and taste three of them. No memorised script and no screening room: it's shown to you by the people who make it. Groups of two to twenty-five, by reservation.
Visits run in Spanish and English. With two weeks' notice, in French too.
1927
the year of the first bottled harvest
Four generations of the same family.
22 ha
of our own vineyard
Everything we bottle comes from here.
600
barrels in the hall
French and American oak, and you'll see them on the visit.
25
people per slot, at most
So you can hear and ask questions.
They all start on the hour and they all end with a seated tasting. What changes is the length, what you try and whether food is involved.
€18 per person
The full route — vineyard, fermentation room, barrel hall — and a tasting of three wines: a white, a young red and a crianza, with local bread and oil. It's the standard visit and the one everyone does first.
€28 per person
The same route, taken more slowly, and a tasting of five wines including two reservas from different vintages, poured side by side so you can tell what changes. Two hours.
€45 per person
September and October only, when the grapes are coming in. You cut for a while in the vineyard, watch the sorting table working and taste beside the full tanks. Your shoes will get dirty.
€62 per person
The usual visit and, afterwards, a four-course lunch in the upstairs room with the house wines. Minimum eight people, booked a week ahead. We send you the menu in writing before you say yes.
A firm written quote
Up to 25 people per slot; if there are more of you we split into two groups starting half an hour apart. Coach access to the door, an invoice in the company's name and a room with a projector if you need to meet first.
€180 for the group, up to 6 people
The winery to yourselves, at whatever time suits you, Mondays and public holidays included. Two hours, a five-wine tasting and time to ask everything a big group never leaves room to ask.
Under-18s may come along on any visit and do not take part in the tasting: there's house grape juice and water in their place. Under-12s don't pay.
Price per person, VAT included. Paid on arrival, in cash or by card. These amounts are an example: swap them for yours before you publish.
The one we recommend
€18per person · 90 minutes
The full route and three wines on the table.
€28per person · 2 hours
Five wines, including two reservas from different vintages.
€45per person · a whole morning
September and October only, with grapes coming in.
The dates depend on when the grapes are ready: they're confirmed at the end of August.
Cancellations: up to 24 hours beforehand nothing is charged and the date can be changed with no fuss. If you don't turn up and haven't told us, nothing is charged either, but it costs an empty slot that other people were asking for. A timely message is all we ask. The tasting is for over-18s; under-18s come along but don't taste, and under-12s don't pay.
So you know whether it suits you before booking: where you walk, where you stand and at what point you sit down.
5 minutes
On the hour. There's parking outside and shade to wait in. Ten minutes late and we'll slot you in with the group; any later and we can't, without cutting the visit short for everyone else.
20 minutes
A short walk between the vines, over flat ground. You see how the grapes are that month, hear about pruning and why we barely irrigate here. In July sun, bring a hat.
It's the only part outdoors: if it rains we do it under the porch.
25 minutes
Down to the tank room and from there to the barrel hall, which sits at thirteen degrees all year round: bring long sleeves. This is where you hear what actually makes one wine different from another.
35 minutes
In the upstairs room, with a table, daylight and room for everyone. Three wines in order, bread and oil, and water and grape juice from the first minute. You taste at your own pace and ask anything.
Whoever is driving can taste and spit, which is what we do here all day long.
5 minutes
At the end you can buy, and it's fine if you don't. Take it with you or have it sent home. There's no quantity discount that depends on how much you tasted.
My great-grandfather bottled the first harvest under his own name in 1927. Until then the family sold the grapes in bulk, as almost everyone did around here, and what changed was one stubborn decision: if the wine is ours, let it carry our name and let people know which plot it comes from.
What survives from that winery is the barrel hall, with its vault and its constant thirteen degrees, and so does the way we work: 22 hectares of our own, hand-picked in the old plots and no buying in grapes from outside to hit a number. Everything else has changed completely — stainless tanks, a sorting table, a lab — because the 1927 wine wasn't better for being old.
There are six of us at the winery and five of us run visits. That's why there's no script: each of us tells it their own way and none of us tells it the same way twice.
Swap these for your own. The four that work best are: the vineyard in whatever month it is, the barrel hall, hands at work and the tasting table laid. No empty glasses on a black background.
We sell at the winery, at the same price as online and with no "cellar-door price" stories. Here's how it works, with no small print.
Open the same hours as the visits, and open without a visit too: you can come in just to buy. Single bottles or cases of six. We sell only to over-18s and we ask for ID when in doubt.
Mainland Spain in 48-72 hours, insured against breakage. You pay at the counter and it arrives at home: nobody has to lug six bottles around for the rest of the weekend. For the islands, ask us about carriage first.
Wooden cases of three or six, with a handwritten card if you tell us what to put on it. For corporate hampers we quote with a custom label, and you need to order before 15 November to have it for Christmas.
We don't sell or serve to under-18s, not here and not at any fair. If you've been tasting and you're driving, wait: there's coffee, water and a shaded garden, and we don't charge you to sit in it. Sale to under-18s is prohibited.
If you want to sell your wines from the site itself, it's set up in Shop → Products: catalogue, carriage and card payments. This template deliberately ships with it switched off, because selling alcohol online means checking ages and deciding where you'll ship to.
Slots start on the hour and you can't come in later. All by reservation: even when the winery is open, without a booking there may be no room at the tasting table.
During harvest (September and October) the times change weekly depending on when the grapes come in: they're posted here on Mondays. Closed on 24, 25 and 31 December and 1 January.
Tell us which day, which slot and how many of you there are. We reply the same working day to say whether there's room at that table. Nothing is charged when you book: the visit is paid on arrival.
If yours isn't here, write to us and we'll add it.
Yes, and without missing anything. There's a spittoon on the table from the first wine: you taste, smell, try and spit, which is what we do here every day. There's also water, house grape juice and coffee at the end. If you'd rather not touch a drop, the visit costs the same and is explained the same.
Along, yes; tasting, no. We put house grape juice and water in their place, and under-12s don't pay. The vineyard and barrel part usually goes down well; the tasting drags for them, we should warn you.
Spanish and English every day; the 12:30 pm Saturday slot is always in English. In French with two weeks' notice, because one particular member of the team does it and we have to fit it round their shift.
The vineyard and the tasting room are: there's a ramp and an adapted toilet. The barrel hall is down twelve stone steps with no lift, and that part is not accessible. What we do is show it on video from above and lengthen the vineyard section. Say so when booking and we'll get it ready.
Of course. The counter keeps the same hours and you can come in just to buy, with no booking and no obligation to taste anything. The price is the same as online: there's no "cellar-door price" here that's really just the usual one.
Always book. The winery can be open and the slot full, because the tasting table seats twenty-five and no more. Booking the day before is usually enough, except Saturdays, Sundays and harvest time, which go two weeks ahead.
In the vineyard and the garden, yes, on a lead. Not in the barrel hall or the tasting room, under the premises' own hygiene rules. If you're coming with a dog, say so when booking and we'll fit you into a slot where someone can stay with them in the garden, which is shaded and has water.
About 900 metres in total, nearly all flat and on packed earth, plus twelve stone steps down to the barrels. Closed, comfortable shoes; thin heels are a struggle. In July and August bring a hat and water, as the vineyard has no shade.
Another question before booking?
Write to usFour kilometres from the village on a surfaced road, with the winery sign on the right. There's room for cars and for a coach right outside the door.
If you've been tasting and you're driving, take your time: there's coffee, water and a garden, and nobody will move you on. If you'd rather, we'll call you a taxi and you can fetch the car the next day.
For groups, lunches, corporate hampers or anything not covered above. We reply the same working day. If it's for a large group, tell us how many you are and which day you have in mind: that's enough for us to say whether it fits.
