During 8 action-packed, yet stressless days we really let you in and introduce you to the soul of Spain. The ham, the wine, the villages, La Dehesa where the spanish bulls & ibérico pigs lead there lives, the capital Madrid and the beauty of unknown national reserve Arribes de Duero and the beauty of western Spanish gem Salamanca. As always we take you to locals, taste unknown sublime wines with enthisiastic wine makers, try goat cheese and just roll our eyes about how good life can be.
Day 1
Arrival to Madrid. Transfer on your own to the downtown hotel 4 **** . Meeting with guide and welcome dinner. We start off with a traditional tasting menu with one of Madrids best chefs and highly rated tavernas.
Day 2
Transfer to Sepúlveda 1,5h transfer. Walking about 2 hours in the nature reserve Hoces the Duratón with one of Spain’s largest vulture colonies. Lunch? It can only be lamb in a clay oven! Check in to rural hotel. Dinner on your own.
Day 3
We continue northbound to soon reach one of the star wine apellations of Spain, D.O. Ribera de Duero where we leisure walk following the Duero river from Peñafiel. Wine activities, visit, tasting & lunch with a small terroir obsessed winery. Later we continue to the D.O. Toro and charming village of Toro where we stay overnight in 3 *** hotel. Visit, tasting and dinner with well pointed wine by wine-guru Robert Parker!
Day 4
Transfer to the nature reserve Arribes de Duero in Spain and the Douro International in Portugal … 2 names – same river! Wine tasting and microbrewery in one place with true entrepreneurs! Walking towards the village Fermoselle, the village with hundreds of bodegas under its buildings. Majestic settings, views and homy traditional restaurant lunch. Afternoon visit and tasting to a brave foreign woman making wine in Fermoselle. Check in, a short walk up to the castle to see the sunset before dinner.
Day 5
Transfer to World Heritage and perhaps Spain’s most beautiful city of Salamanca with check in at 3 *** hotel, city tour with guide, lunch on your own and free afternoon and evening.
Day 6
Day trip to ham city and D.O. for Ibérico ham Guijuelo, visit, tasting and early lunch. Then on to the villages Alberca & Mogarraz with appropiate leisure walk. A couple of real favorites in Spain! Tasting menu and modern farewell dinner in town.
Day 7
Transfer to Madrid 2h and a day off in Madrid.
Day 8
Transfer on your own to airport.
New Spain is a concept and attribute that has been applied to the up´n´coming D.O. appelations in Spain. We will find out more about and taste the dark and strong Toro wines, try the fruity and herbal D.O Rueda, getting to try old-vined wines from Arribes de Duero and much more…
Local producers of ham, cheese and jam will open up their homes and there handicraft work shops. We will to see how young farmers and entrepreneurs can find their place in the sun.
2015 Tours
Salamanca inspiration 
Duero river inspiration 
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