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Looking for budget winery tours/tastings in Spain and Portugal

Hello,

My wife and I are going to Spain and Portugal this summer for our honeymoon. We don't have a lot of money. She's a chef and I would like to get some info on winery tours/tastings. Very difficult to Google this info, because the results are generally clogged with ad- sites for long, very expensive gourmet wine/food tours.

If someone has personally gone on a good, but not expensive tour and tasting for a day or a few hours near a major city in Spain or Portugal, I would appreciate any recommendations.

(Maybe cheese too if you think of it)

Thanks!

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Which part of Spain you would like to tour? Most of wineries in Spain do not charge for visiting the winery or the tasting afterwards. Most of them do not think of visitors like a source of income and are not prepared for wine-tourism, but they will receive you if you contact in advance.

On the other hand, there are wineries that even have a hotel as part of the business (Riscal in Rioja, Arzuaga in Ribera) and others that are actually prepared for tourists, such as Gonzalez Byass in Jerez.

If you can explain further what parts of Spain you will tour, I may point out some interesting wineries.

best,

s.

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Add Torres to the list of those set up for it, and I think there are several in Navarre.

There is also a large, rather pretentious, but certainly comprehensive museum of wine,

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near Haro. You may not learn much from the museum, although the samples explaining descriptors like leather or grass work better than in other museums. You will see more presses in one place than you have ever seen before, but the 'garden' of hundreds of different vines is interesting.

Sheila

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