La Rioja wines and Laguardia tour from San Sebastian
Description
Experience a day of exquisite wine tourism with our tour from San Sebastian to La Rioja, where you’ll discover why these lands, shaped since Roman times, are synonymous with excellence. With private transport and hotel pick-up in San Sebastian, head to La Rioja to visit two (one for the bilingual group option) contrasting wineries: one small and family-run, the other mid-sized, exploring traditional and innovative vineyard and cellar methods. Stroll among vines and barrels and enjoy a guided wine tasting highlighting the red fruit, vanilla, and spice notes typical of Crianza and Reserva wines. Continue to Laguardia, a medieval gem with cobbled streets and underground cellars, for a small pintxos lunch paired with local wines and tips to explore the wine route further. No expertise is required, just a desire to discover unique landscapes and meet the people behind each bottle, in a comfortable, intimate, and flexible day.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Visit to the first winery and wine tasting
Visit to the second winery and wine tasting (not availble for Bilingual group option)
Arrival in Laguardia and light lunch (lunch not included in the Bilingual group option)
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We can pick you up at any hotel/apartment of your convenience in San Sebastian. Please provide name and address. After booking we will send you a confirmation email.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- A minimum of 2 adults is required, among all bookings, for the tour to go ahead (minimum of 4 adults for the bilingual group option). If the minimum group for carrying out the activity would not be reached, an alternative date or full refund would be offered. If your booking was below this number we will contact you at least 2 days in advance to inform you in case the minimum group size was not covered by this stage. Please feel free to contact us anytime to confirm the total amount of bookings for your tour date.
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- If there are children included in the booking, three days before the tour we will contact you by email to confirm their weight and height and to select the appropriate child seat for the car.
- Vegetarian and gluten-free options are available upon request. Please indicate your preference in the comments section at the time of booking so we can make the necessary arrangements.
- Depending on the winery visited, the quantity and types of wines may vary, as well as the types of snacks included.
- Not recommended for vegans
- Unfortunately, this tour is not suitable for people with reduced mobility.
- Not recommended for people with reduced mobility.
Reviews(105)
Our tour guide and chauffeur Alby was wonderful. Very welcoming, cheerful and informative. He went above and beyond to ensure that our group had a great experience. The visits, transport and lunch were also great - I recommend this tour!
Superb tour. Excellent wineries and hosts at both locations. Tour guides made the most of the trip. Both wineries showed us the different ways that local wineries are producing their wine.
We enjoyed a lovely day exploring Rioja! Our guide Victor was very knowledgeable, kind and accommodating. Our 11-year-old son was with us and Victor and the wineries were both very welcoming and gave him special juice and snacks and made sure he was included the full time. We went to two family run wineries and lunch in the town of Laguardia, and had a wonderful day and enjoyed getting to know the other family in our tour, too.
We visited one amazing winery. However it was a long distance to travel to just visit only one winery. Lunch was not included. Guide was knowledgeable
Excellent day out from start to finish. The small town visited was an added bonus with lunch. Our tour guide was informative and couldn’t have been more helpful. Both vineyards had excellent choices of wines would high recommend
One of the best tours we have ever been on. Great English speaking Aussie guide. Very knowledgeable guides at the wineries too. Good quality wines on tasting paired with food. Lunch at Laguardia exceptional.
Comfortable transportation. Interesting wineries. Knowledgeable host. Both wineries were family run and hosted by family members so we had a great perspective of their love and labor of the wines they produce.
Our guide Alby was friendly and provided a charming evening with great wine and tasty food! I appreciated his knowledge of the area and the two contrasting wine tours, one large and one very local and experimental winery.
This was a real highlight. Alby was an excellent guide, the wineries were fabulous as was the lunch and the village we visited. Highly recommend.
Had a lovely time visiting 2 wineries taste lovely wine and food. Great company and no driving for us which was terrific
