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Northern Wine Tour Madrid - Ribera del Duero – Rioja – San Sebastián

H: Hotel |B: Breakfast | L: Lunch | D: Dinner |WV: Winery Visit

Day 1. September 1st, Friday – Arrive to Madrid Upon arrival, look for a sign board with your name for private transfer at Madrid airport. Hotel check-in.

At 7.30PM meet your guide at your hotel and set off to begin with your evening Tour for dinner. Historical Madrid tapas tour: You will discover hidden spots, in the very heart of Madrid, each of which has something special to offer, be it a typical dish, a specific type of wine or its atmosphere. Visit to four tapas bars where you would have some tapas and wine or other drink. Tour of the area where you will learn about some of Madrid’s most characteristic places. Wine and food enough for dinner. Expected to be finish at 10.30PM Night in Madrid. (H, D)

Your hotel for the next 2 nights in Madrid Hotel Villa Real***** Villa Real is an exquisite 5-star luxury hotel located in the heart of Madrid, in the Plaza de las Cortes, in front of the Congress of Deputies and only a few minutes from the Puerta del Sol. An ideal setting for exploring the Madrid and discovering the charming surroundings.

Thanks to its long history and quality service, this is considered to be a classic among Madrid’s luxury hotels. Its 115 elegantly decorated rooms, have balconies or terraces with amazing privileged views of the Parque del Retiro, the Botanical Gardens or the Paseo de la Castellana.

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Day 2. September 2nd, Saturday – Madrid. Enjoy some free time this morning. Explore on your own the famous museums such as the Prado, the Royal Palace or sit in the Plaza Mayor and have a Café Cortado. Or sleep in and catch up after the long flight.

Meet your guide at the hotel for 11:30AM for a traditional Spanish cooking class. The class itself has a duration of 3h, The cooking school is located in a market and you will have a guided walk in the market before the class. You will learn interactively to prepare Spain’s flagship dishes, such as paella, and tortilla, and afterwards lunch will take place with the already prepared dishes and paired with different wines.

Late afternoon and evening at leisure – suggested time to further explore the museums, fantastic shops and other visits.

Night in Madrid. (H, B, lunch cooking class)

Day 3. September 3rd, Sunday – Segovia and Ribera del Duero Meet you guide this morning at 10AM in the lobby. Check-out and begin the drive from Madrid to Segovia (~1,5h).

En-route, visit to the millenary town of Segovia, declared World Heritage by UNESCO, where you will admire the two thousand year old roman aqueduct (best preserved in the world), the astonishing Alcazar castle, the cathedral and the old quarters.

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Enjoy lunch in one of the best asadores (restaurant specialized in roasting meat) of Segovia where you can tray the famous tender suckling pig, the traditional dish in Segovia. This will be paired with locals wines that were made to perfectly match the dishes served.

Continue from Segovia onward to Riberia to the hotel and hotel check in, expected arrival at 4:30PM. Free time at the hotel to enjoy the renowned pools and SPA. Dinner at leisure or as an option we can arrange for those members of the group intersted to go to Fuente Acena.

Night in Ribera. (H, B, L)

Your hotel for the next 2 nights in Ribera del Duero Monasterio Santa Maria de Valbuena Hotel & SPA This Hotel and SPA is the newest 5 star hotel in Ribera del Duero. It is located in the Golden mile, in the heart of Ribera del Duero and in one the best preserved Cistercian monastery of the 12th century in Europe. The rooms respect the old cells of the monks. It has a large thermal pool, contrast water circuit, an outside pool and offers extensive spa services.

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Day 4. September 4th, Monday – Ribera de Duero. Enjoy a wonderful spread for breakfast in this ancient building before meeting your guide at 9.30AM to set off and explore the famous wines of the region.

Morning winery visit and tasting at Aalto Winery. This is a modern winery that belongs to two wine people in Ribera, Mariano Garcia, the former winemaker of Vega Sicilia and owner of Mauro and Javier Zacannini, the former head of the regulatory council. State of the art facility built to make only high quality wines. They have 42 hectares of land premium in three sub regions of the Ribera del Duero, two in the province of Valladolid and one in the province of Burgos. Of these, 32 are located on slopes farms replanted with old clones of Tinto Fino. The remaining 10 acres, vineyards over 60 years they acquired in the province of Burgos and the very low yields they obtain 2500 kg / ha. Harvesting is done manually in small boxes..

Continue with a wine tasting in an underground cellar from the 16th century. The cellar is in a premium wine vinoteca specialized in Ribera del Duero wines and has the one of the best collection of Vega Sicilia in Spain. The historical Cellar Don Carlos is an underground cellar from the 16th century located in the center of Aranda de Duero. The owner, Fernando Ortiz, will receive us and present some small producer’s wines including his own, Lara O Wines. He is a somellier and winemaker with a deep passion for old wines. He also enjoys discovering the unknown Ribera wineries focused on small productions and really high quality, that make your eyebrows rise when you taste it. We´ll have a tapas lunch with the wine tasting while he presents insights about his local regions wine and food.

Afterwards you’ll head off to for a 4PM visit and tasting at Emilio Moro.

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Emilio Moro is a family-owned winery making wine for over120 years! The family owns 144 acres of vines in Pesquera de Duero, looking over the Duero River from an elevation of 700 metres. The 3rd generation Moro, Emilio started working in the winery with his father at 14. In the late 80's he had a meeting with his four children and they decided to increase the commercial end of the winery. Emilio planted new vines, grafting the centenarian vines onto the young ones. In 1989 when Bodegas Emilio Moro was finally a reality, they launched their first wine, gaining the status of DO. Nowadays they own 173 acres where they grow their indigenous grapes, Tempranillo and Tinto Fino.

As an alternative to the winery visit head to the famous landmark you can see from the vineyard. Go up to the castle of Peñafiel with its amazing views of the Duero Valley and its Plaza del Coso used as a bullfight during the fiestas.

Return to your hotel, expected arrival at 6PM. Night in Ribera del Duero. (H, L, 3 WV)

Day 5. September 5th, Tuesday – Burgos and Rioja After breakfast, check out and at 9.30AM depart from your hotel.

The first visit this morning visit is at Valsotillo Winery. This is a traditional family winery with cellars from the 17th century where the owners show the winery and accompany you during the wine tasting. Ismael Arroyo is better known for the name of his wines Valsotillo. Ismael Arroyo is the founder of the winery, who started the family bodega in 1979 in Sotillo de la Ribera. This small winery is one of the most attractive in the region because it

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holds an impressive 17th century gallery dug in the mountain, which is currently used as excellent aging cellars. Here the wines are slowly aged at a near constant temperature of 11-12 degrees Celsius with a total absence

At 1.00PM there will be a short visit followed by lunch in Portia Winery. This is the new winery belonging to Faustino group, one of the largest in Spain and the makers of the world famous Riojan wines Faustino and Campillo. Designed by Sir Norman Foster, one of the world premier architects, the winery is almost entirely constructed of four materials that are intrinsic to the wine making process: steel, oak, glass and concrete. It is a trefoil design, with each of the three legs housing one part of the winemaking process: grape reception and fermentation in the first, barrel ageing in the second and bottling in the third. This is one of the most impressive modern wineries in the world.

Continue to Rioja (~2h20min). Hotel check in, expected arrival at 6.30PM. Night in Rioja. (H, L, 2 WV)

Your hotel for the next 4 nights in Rioja Wine and Oils SPA Hotel Villa de Laguardia The four star hotel in Laguardia has been conceived to offer you maximum comfort in your stay in Rioja. It also has a wonderful swimming pool for refreshing after a wine tasting day. It is located just outside the walled part of Laguardia. It is a nice 10 min walk to get to the historic center of Laguardia.

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Day 6. September 6th, Wednesday – Traditional Rioja After breakfast this morning, meet your guide at 9.30AM and set off to explore one of the world’s premier wine regions.

Morning visits at Muga winery in Haro. Muga is one of the most classical wineries of Rioja. The Muga family has been making their wines since 1932. They are located in the old station district on the outskirts of Haro; this is the historical site of the most prestigious bodegas in . They follow the most traditional methods in the wine-making process, using oak through and through. They carry out all the process including the aging and fermentation in oak. Their barrels of French and American oak are renewed every ten years maximum. The excellence and high quality of their wines are rewarded by high recognition and prestige in the most demanding markets both nationally and internationally. Bodegas Muga own 35 Hectares of vineyard all of which are found in La Rioja Alta.

Visit Valenciso Winery in Ollauri. A small family winery making only reserve wines. After fifteen years of shared work in a prestigious and centenarian cellar of Rioja with strong international presence, Luis Valentín and Carmen Enciso decide to promote the Compañía Bodeguera de Valenciso, creating the cellar which reflects their experience and personal vision of what wine and wine-making should be. In the Compañía Bodeguera de Valenciso they elaborate and age great Rioja wines under the guiding principles of quality and integrity. VALENCISO is born from their strict criteria: Tempranillo grapes from old vineyards with low yields, new barriques - predominantly French oak - having one third renewed annually, cork "flor" quality - the highest level - and a long savoir faire marked by fondness and dedication only applicable to small cuvées.

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At 2.00PM enjoy a Traditional lunch of the region - Potatoes with chorizo and roasted lamb chops. The lamb chops are grilled using the stocks of the grape vines, which deliver exceptional high heat making for a great grilled meet. This will be served with tradtional beans and sides typical to the Rioja.

Afterwards around 4.00PM visit the Culture of Wine Museum, Dinastía Vivanco in Briones, located in a unique and historic location in the Rioja Alta and considered one of the best wine museums in the world. Return to the hotel. Night in Rioja. (H, B, L, 2WV)

Day 7. September 7th, Thursday – Wine and Architecture in Rioja In the morning, after breakfast we will setoff to further explore Rioja with two winery visits. We will arrange a visit to one of the smaller boutique wineries in Rioja like Murua or a traditional family owned one that represents Rioja like Amezola de Mora or even one of the most astonishing places in Spain Campo Viejo winery, state of the art producing 30 million bottles.

Visit and wine paired lunch in an astonishing winery designed by a famous architect Baigorri. A total contrast – strikingly modern and high-tech, Baigorri is built on 7 levels into a terraced hillside to take advantage of gravity flow to move their wines. This project is the fruit of years of hard work by Jesus Baigorri and Iñaki Aspizu, an architect whose work is an architectonic reference point thanks to the emblematic nature of his constructions

Visit the medieval walled village of Laguardia -13th century. Under the stone paved streets and homes of Laguardia it is full of old subterranean bodegas, and over them there are many historic

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monuments and sites, like the Gothic facade of Santa Maria de los Reyes church from the 14th century.

Optional Tapas dinner in Logroño. Night in Rioja (H, B, L, 2WV)

Day 8. September 8th, Friday – Wine in Navarra This morning after breakfast meet witn you guide and drive to Navarra to experience a new region with 2 winery visits and lunch. Navarra is about 1h from Rioja.

11AM Visit Bodegas Nekeas in Añorbe. The visit includes: tasting of 2 wines, olive oil tasting and appetizer. Thanks to its outstanding location, climate and geological characteristics, the Valley of Nekeas is one of Spain’s finest areas for the production of quality wine and olive oil. It is influenced by both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean

Visit the lovely historical village of Olite that boasts the magnificent Palacio Real de Olite a courtly and military character building built during the 13th and 14th centuries which was once the residence of the kings of Navarra. Explore a ramble of turrets, keeps and dungeons, and the oldest part Palacio Viejo. There are also two gorgeous old churches, Romanesque San Pedro and Gothic Santa María la Real, the latter with a superb retablo and exterior portal – look out for the unusual figure of a man on an elephant.

Lunch in Parador de Olite.

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3.30PM Visit Pagos de Araiz winery. Pagos de Aráiz is owned by the Masaveu family, which in addition to its many business interests has one of the finest private art collections in Europe. The dazzling winery and reception centre that has been built in the heart of the Navarra DO houses, not only some of the most modern and technologically advanced equipment for monitoring optimum grape matuity, but also many fine works of modern art from the family's collection Estimated arrival at 6.30PM

Night in Rioja (H, B, L, 2WV)

Day 9. September 9th, Saturday – , Getaria and Txacoli This morning after breakfast check-out at 9.30AM and depart on the drive to Bilbao.

Visit the Guggenheim Museum. The Guggenheim Museum, designed by architect Frank Gehry is a unique Museum built on a 32,500 square meter site in the center of Bilbao represents an amazing construction feat. On one side it runs down to the waterside of the Nervión River, 16 meters below the level of the rest of the city of Bilbao. One end is pierced through by the huge Puente de La Salve, one of the main access routes into the city. The perfect setting: architecture for Art´s sake. The Guggenheim Museum is a symbol of what modern architecture is about, the building by Frank Ghery is the most emblematic modern building in Spain, and it is responsible of the transformation of Bilbao into prime class tourist destinations.

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Continue the drive to Getaria. Getaria is a charming fishing village on the Cantabrian sea backed by green hills covered with trellised grape vines. The fishing port of Getaria was the birthplace of Juan Sebastian Elcano, Ferdinand Magellan’s navigator who sailed with Magellan and was the first to circumnavigate the globe in the early 16th century. Another famous son of Getaria was fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga that has now a museum in town. The village is the heart of the country’s smallest wine region producing de Getaria.

1.30PM Visit the Elkano Txakoli winery. In their winery, part of PDO Getariako Txakolina their Txakoli is produced by hand, following the process that was used historically, but with new techniques. All details are taken care of, from growing the grapes to put the bottles in boxes. The family produces txakoli since at least 1830, traditions that has been recovered by Jose Luis Zimmermann, in the 80s.

Afterwards have lunch in Txoko in Getaria.

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Dinner this evening is a special event, held at one of the world’s top restaurants, Akelare awarded as a 3 Michelin star restaurants. You’ll dine like never before, trying a multiple course meal with paired wines.

Head to San Sebastian. Night in San Sebastian (H, B, L,D, 1WV)

Your hotel for the next 2 nights Hotel Londres The Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra is your boutique hotel in San Sebastián. Hotel de Londres started its journey over 100 years ago and has seen firsthand the changes in the city of Donostia San Sebastián, from La Belle Epoque to nowadays. The Hotel in a beach front location, offers the most amazing views.

Day 10. September 10th, Sunday – San Sebastian This morning after breakfast, head with your guide to tour up to the top of Mt Igueado by funicular for spectaculor views over the famous conch shaped beach and hills beyond San Sebastian.

At 12.30PM rendezvous at the hotel for a pintxos tour for lunch. Tapas are small dishes or cuisine in miniature, also called pintxos in the Basque country, although pintxos are really food in a pincho or stick. This typical Spanish tradition has crossed all borders and it is now known all over the world, with San Sebastian being one of the most famous places in Spain for pintxo or tapas. Here you can find the most diverse tapas in Spain, from traditional dishes to

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creative pieces of art in your plate or stick. This will be also a short walking tour of the historical old part of San Sebastian, where our local guides will take you to the best bars in the city.

Free afternoon to enjoy the beach, go shopping or explore this quaint seaside town.

Final night will be a cooking class with a master chef in San Sebastian for dinner. There will be great wines, the chance to learn more about cooking and lots of fun to celebrate the final evening.

Night in San Sebastian. (B, L)

Day 11. September 11th, Monday - Departure Departure transfer to Bilbao airport to connect with international flights out of Madrid (B)

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INCLUSIONS:  10 nights accommodation with breakfast in double occupancy in hotels proposed  Meals as per itinerary with wine: 9 lunches and three dinners. Including one tapas dinner in Madrid, one cooking class for lunch in Madrid, and one tapas lunch in San Sebastian.  Winery visits with wine tasting.  Bilingual Spanish/English tour assistant during the tour for 10 days.  Organization of your trip and planning. All documents and information needed for the tour. Taxes

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12 + Number of guests

Spain Itinerary $4,785USD

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