Rioja Winery Visits: 16 Bodega Tours from 18 EUR
Sixteen one-to-two-hour visits, median 25 EUR, and one of them holds half of all the reviews. None includes transport.
One Rioja winery visit holds 49% of the reviews in this category. It is a 25 EUR walk through Laguardia that ends seven metres underground in a cellar, with two wines, and it has 2,353 reviews at 4.9. The other 15 Rioja winery visits share the rest. Together the 16 listings run from 18 to 65 EUR, last one to two hours, and none offers pickup: you get yourself to the door, and the price covers a guide, a cellar and a few glasses.
This page is about that product, one cellar for an hour and a half. It covers what the money buys, why a 65 EUR listing and a 20 EUR one can be the same length, who sells them, and what a bodega's own website asks that a platform does not. The full days by minibus from Bilbao and San Sebastián cost more than ten times as much and are a different page.
For how the visits fit into the wider region, the trains to Haro and the three sub-zones, see the Rioja page.
Altanza Winery Tour in Fuenmayor with Vineyard Walk and Cloister Garden Tasting
A cloister garden is the setting for three Altanza wines with cheese, cured meats and organic olive oil, after a walk through the winery and vineyards.
Badarán Family Winery Visit with Four-Wine Tasting and Riojan Appetizer
A family winery in Alto Najerilla, ten minutes from the Yuso and Suso monasteries, pours four wines with a Riojan appetizer after a walk through the cellar.
Bodegas Campillo Tour in Rioja Alavesa: Vineyards, Cellars and Three Wines
The first winery in Rioja Alavesa to open to visitors: 90 minutes among vines and barrels, a portico of seven arches and three wines with a light snack.
Bodegas Franco-Españolas Guided Winery Tour and Tasting in Logroño
A 1.5-hour visit led by an oenology expert at a winery founded in 1890 in Logroño, closing with two of its own wines and a traditional La Rioja aperitif.
Bodegas Izadi Small-Group Winery Visit with Barrel Room Tasting, Villabuena
Groups stay small at Bodegas Izadi, and the route runs down five winery levels where gravity moves the wine, ending with a tasting in the barrel room.
Bodegas Loli Casado Noon Winery Tour with Four Wines and Olive Oil
A noon visit to a century-old Rioja Alavesa winery: vines first, then the cellar rooms, then four wines tasted with extra virgin olive oil and an appetizer.
Bodegas Manzanos Haro Tour: Vertical Winery, 15th-Century Crypt and Five Wines
A 19th-century vertical winery on Calle Las Cuevas with five underground levels, a 15th-century bottle crypt and five wines with cheese, in about 2 hours.
Calado El Guallavero Wine Tasting with Family Wines and Snack, Laguardia
A private calado in Laguardia, one of the medieval wine tunnels under the town, where the family pours its own wines and serves a snack to go with them.
Eguren Ugarte Wine Tasting at Vitoria's Mercado de Abastos with Cheese or Cured Meats
A 90-minute guided tasting of four Eguren Ugarte wines from Laguardia, held at Vitoria's Mercado de Abastos with a cheese board or Iberian cured meats.
Hoplita Winery Tour in Logroño's Old Town: Four Wines in a Former Palace
The only winery in Logroño's historic center, in the former Conde de Murillo y Bornos palace, with four wines poured in the barrel room after a 1.5-hour tour.
J.F. Iradier Winery Tour in Samaniego: 18th-Century Rock Cellars and Three Wines
Cellars and tunnels carved into rock in the old part of a Samaniego winery, then its modern side and three wines with a snack of local products, in 1.5 hours.
Laguardia Walking Tour with Wine Cave Visit and Tasting of Two Rioja Wines
A 1.5-hour walk through Laguardia's old quarter ends 7 metres underground in a wine cave with 16th-century winemaking roots and two Rioja Alavesa wines.
Private Family Winery Tasting and Vineyard Visit, San Vicente de la Sonsierra
A private tasting at a winery whose family traditions go back more than 100 years, with a walk through the vineyards before the wines are poured in the glass.
Samaniego Family Winery Visit with Old Cellar Tunnels and Tasting, Rioja Alavesa
This family winery visit starts in the old cellars and ends where today's wines are made, with a selection of local products served alongside the wine tasting.
Solar de Samaniego Winery Tour in Laguardia with Three Wines and Appetizer
A 1968 Laguardia winery tied to writer Félix María de Samaniego, with Guido van Helten murals on its old warehouses and a three-wine tasting with appetizer.
Viña Ijalba Winery Tour in Logroño with Underground Cellar and Three-Wine Tasting
Around two thousand oak casks in an underground ageing room, then three house wines with cheese, chorizo and salami at a Logroño winery founded in 1991.
Ratings collected by Civitatis, Viator and Tripadvisor
What a Rioja winery visit costs, and what comes with it
Most of the listings follow one template. You meet a guide at the bodega or in the village, walk through the cellar, and taste two or three wines. Civitatis describes its Laguardia visit as a guided walk plus "a tasting of 2 wines". Bodegas Solar de Samaniego, at 65 EUR the dearest, gives three glasses of red in an hour. Bodegas Martínez Alesanco adds an aperitif for 20 EUR. The number of glasses rises a little with the price, the length hardly at all.
The exceptions are at each end. The 55 EUR listing is a private tasting in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, two hours long. The 65 EUR one is a winery that has turned its old warehouses into an art project, with murals by the Australian artist Guido van Helten, and sells the art and the architecture along with the wine. Neither is what 25 EUR buys.
On the chart the winery visits are a single dot with almost no bar, which is unusual. The middle half of the 16 listings spans only 20 to 28.5 EUR. Fourteen of 16 cost 35 EUR or less, and the prices repeat: five at 25 EUR and six at 18 or 20. That tightness is useful. A visit that costs 35 EUR or more is buying something, like Haro's longer two-hour tour, and a 20 EUR one is buying the standard hour and a half.
Who sells them: one platform, six bodegas
Ten listings come from Civitatis, which sells a booked time at a bodega it does not own. They hold 4,435 of the 4,812 reviews. The other six are on Viator and are operated by the bodegas or by small producers: Solar de Samaniego, Iradier, Izadi, Martínez Alesanco, Teodoro Ruiz Monge and Casa Peque, six operators with 377 reviews between them. The price is the same. The median is 25 EUR for both groups.
What differs is how much you can learn before you pay. The Civitatis page we opened lists the language of the guide and the number of wines. The Viator ones are thinner: the 65 EUR listing says, in its language field, Spanish only, and its inclusions read, in full, "three glasses of red wine during the visit". That is the one to check twice if you do not speak Spanish.
| Visit | Price | Length | Reviews | Rating | Sold by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laguardia guided tour and winery visit | 25 EUR | 1.5 h | 2,353 | 4.9 | Civitatis |
| La Rioja Winery Tour | 28 EUR | 1.5 h | 847 | 4.6 | Civitatis |
| Viña Ijalba Winery Tour and Tasting | 25 EUR | 1.2 h | 656 | 4.6 | Civitatis |
| Winery tour, three wines and an appetiser (Solar de Samaniego) | 65 EUR | 1 h | 327 | 4.7 | Viator |
| Hoplita Winery Tour | 20 EUR | 1.5 h | 239 | 4.6 | Civitatis |
| Bodegas Campillo Trip | 30 EUR | 1.5 h | 145 | 4.7 | Civitatis |
Inside a visit: what the cellar is
Several listings use the word calado, a cellar cut into the rock beneath a village, and the Laguardia one is the clearest example: a cave seven metres below the street, where the winemaking described in the listing has gone on since the 16th century. Others are purpose-built rooms of oak barrels and steel. The barrels in a modern Rioja bodega and the cool stone below a medieval village are different experiences, and the listing titles rarely say which.
A rough rule: a title that names a town, like the Laguardia tour, signals a village walk as part of the price, while one that names a bodega signals the building and the barrels. We have read the full description of only one, so check it before you pay.
Booking direct or through a platform
A winery's own website can differ from the platform on two things. The first is timing. Muga, in Haro, sells a 90 minute visit with two wines at 30 EUR, does not let anyone in once the visit has started, and does not refund a cancellation made less than 48 hours ahead. Civitatis and Viator both promise a full refund up to 24 hours before. A shorter window at the source is a reason to book early; a longer one at the platform is a reason to use the platform if your plans are loose.
The second is what you can learn before paying. A bodega site tells you who pours and how long; a platform page is a template. Neither is wrong. They are different amounts of information at roughly the same price: Muga's 30 EUR is inside the 18 to 35 EUR band where 14 of these listings sit.
At 25 EUR for 90 minutes, the decision is not about price. It is about whether the visit starts where you already are.
Private visits at 20 to 55 EUR
Three listings are private: Iradier in Rioja Alavesa at 20 EUR, a tasting at Teodoro Ruiz Monge in San Vicente de la Sonsierra at 55, and a tasting at a calado, El Guallavero, at 25. The feed gives one price for each and does not say whether it is per person. At 20 EUR it is most likely per person. At 55 EUR, ask.
The value of a private visit is pace. You can ask questions, sit on a wall after the last glass and leave when you like. The value of a group visit is the bargain and the company. For a couple on a morning in Haro, either is fine.
A morning with two visits in Laguardia
Two of the most booked visits start inside Laguardia: the 25 EUR guided tour meets at Mayor Kalea 29, in the centre, and the Solar de Samaniego tour meets on the road out towards Elciego, at the edge of the same village. Nothing stops you taking one at ten and the other at noon, though we have not checked the departure times. That is 2.5 hours of visits, five wines in all, and a 65 EUR ticket for the second that you may prefer to spend elsewhere.
A more economical version: take the 25 EUR Laguardia tour, which includes the cave and the village, and book a second at a bodega that costs 20 EUR. You will have seen two cellars for 45 EUR, and you will not have driven. The day trips page has the listings that do the same with transport for 75 EUR and up.
How to pick among Rioja winery visits
| If you want | Choose | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| The default, with the village | The Laguardia guided tour with the cave | 25 EUR | English-speaking guide, 2 wines, 1.5 h. Holds half the reviews |
| A named bodega in Haro | Manzanos Haro Winery Tour | 35 EUR | The only two-hour Civitatis listing |
| The cheapest | Bodegas Loli Casado | 18 EUR | 5.0 from only 53 reviews |
| A private tasting | Teodoro Ruiz Monge, San Vicente de la Sonsierra | 55 EUR | Two hours. Confirm the unit |
| Art and architecture | Solar de Samaniego | 65 EUR | Spanish only. One hour |
Do not over-read the rating of the small listings. Six have a perfect 5.0 from under 60 reviews, and the big ones sit at 4.6 to 4.9. The four lowest-rated listings are all Civitatis and all at 4.6, which is not poor but is below the 4.9 of the Laguardia tour with its 2,353 reviews.
Want three cellars and a lunch in one day?
The Rioja day trips run 6 to 9 hours from 75 to 650 EUR, with the driver and usually a meal included.
Questions about Rioja winery visits
How much does a winery visit in Rioja cost?
Between 18 and 65 EUR, with a median of 25. Fourteen of the 16 listings cost 35 EUR or less. A visit at the bodega's own door is in the same range: Muga charges 30 EUR for 90 minutes and two wines.
How long does a visit take?
One to two hours, with a median of 1.5. A Laguardia tour with a village walk takes 1.5 hours in total, cellar included. The two-hour listings are a longer tasting or a private one.
Do I need to book?
Yes. Every listing here is a booked time, and Muga refuses entry once a visit has begun and does not refund a cancellation inside 48 hours. Book the day before, or earlier in September and October.
Is transport included?
No listing offers pickup. The price covers a guide, the cellar and the wines, and you travel to the meeting point yourself. For transport plus several cellars in a day, use a day trip.
Can I do more than one visit in a day?
Yes, in Haro or in Laguardia, if you leave time between them. Each visit is 1 to 2 hours and the bodegas are close. Keep in mind that each pours two or three wines and that the legal driving limit in Spain is 0.5 g/l of blood.
Which Rioja winery visit is best?
The one most people book is the 25 EUR Laguardia tour. By rating and price together it is the safest pick. Choose a named bodega if you want a particular architecture or a private tasting, and expect to pay 35 to 65 EUR.
Data verified on. Prices, durations, sellers, ratings and review counts from the 16 listings on this page, read 30 September 2026. Muga terms from bodegasmuga.com.