Wine tourism is a type of tourism that offers quality and with a common denominator: the taste for the good things and taste. The choicest and knowledgeable palates choose wine as flagship on visits to hotels that cannot miss a cellar. These are the top 5 in Spain.
1- Hotel Abadía Retuerta Le Domaine.
Located in Valladolid, it originated in an old abbey rebuilt and is a paradise for lovers of tranquility. Perfect for a gourmet break, differs from the rest by its award-winning winery Abadia Retuerta Le Domaine.
It gems like white wine Le Domaine saved, with elegant presence in glass, bright, fruity and rich aroma pale yellow, whose entrance is full and the rest is done in new barrels of French origin. Pago Garduña wine, intense aroma, with light floral notes, rotund nose and subtle on the palate, it is a wine of much bearing. Another betting offered by this wine cellar is Pago Negralada , with aromas of black fruit, red fruit and spicy with nutmeg and cloves, structured wine with a fruity finish.
2- Hotel Marqués de Riscal in Elciego
Elciego is a shelter from medieval villages where wine culture takes shape. In this scenary is the Marqués de Riscal Hotel, which boasts the oldest winery in the region, created in 1858. The biggest attraction for guests is a visit to the winery. Highlights include:
– Frank Gehry Selection 2012, with Designation of Origin Rioja, of great dress and color, is elegant and with many nuances as the freshness and minerality of flowers and fruit. Elegant on the palate and spectacular texture, has balance, length and breadth. Billed as the best wine made in Spain.
– Marqués de Riscal Limousin, with designation of origin Rueda, elegant and golden color, creamy on the palate and notes of toasted wood comes from old vines in the highest terraces of the river Douro. His upbringing is developed on lees in French oak barrels. The battonnage or remove the lees, is held twice a week during the breeding period.
– Baron Chirel Reserva, Tempranillo variety, tasty on the palate and natural acidity. The
evolution in the bottle is assured thanks to the altitude of the farms. Their vines are over a hundred years. The harvest is done manually and, when arriving at the winery, the grapes and whole grapes looking wood accents to give character and depth are selected.
3- Hotel Hacienda Zorita
At the heart of the Douro Valley, Hotel Hacienda Zorita is located. Founded in 1933, originally it was a hospitable house and a farm in the Dominican order. Ideal to enjoy spectacular outdoor and water of the river Tormes. Its restaurant, National Award Plato de Oro 2015, hosts wines from its cellar raising Marqués de la Concordia.
In its winemaking highlights the Magister, made from grapes of the Douro Valley. Upbringing in French oak barrels lasts 10 months. Among its wines include:
- Hacienda Zorita Crianza, 100% Tempranillo, aged in French and American oak
for a year. Cherry and garnet tones, intense nose with fruity aromas with light tones of French oak. Perfect to accompany meats.
– Hacienda Zorita Magister, 60% Tempranillo, 30% Syrah and 10% Merlot and the Douro Valley. Aging lengthens year and a half in new French oak barrels Allier. Elegant, complex and good structure. roasted notes and tannins in the long aftertaste. Ideal to accompany meats.
4- Hotel Perelada
Located in an environment of incomparable natural beauty, known for its wellness experiences and unique and unrepeatable cellar with wines such as Collection Blanc 2013 with origin Empordà and Chardonnay (70%), Sauvignon Blanc (30%). Its development of selected grapes and fermentation at 16º makes it a breeding young wine with an aging of 8% in new barrels of acacia. Tropical fruit aroma, bright yellow and round in the mouth, it is intense and complex wine.
– Grenache of L’Emporda, is sweet wine that combines the red and white Grenache with vines over 40 years and one year aging in screeds. The must ferments slowly at low temperature to keep the flavor. Tawny and voluptuous aromas, generous mouth, its flavors reminiscent of spices and nuts.
– Gran Claustro 2009, its varieties are Grenache (50%), Cabernet Sauvignon (30%) and Merlot (20%). Made from selected grapes, picked by hand, enjoy an optimal point of maturity.
Fermentation reaches a temperature of 25 ° and the aging period is 18 months in new French oak Bordelaise. Cherry red color, aroma has ripe fruit and spicy background.
Round in the mouth, it is balanced and with good aging.
5- Espelt Viticultors
Mas Espelt is a restored farmhouse. Surrounded by green vineyards and olive groves, it is popular for daily visits to its wineries. The hotel boasts a large wine cellar with terroir wines among others.
Comabruna, planted his vineyard in the early twentieth century is formed by slate floors. Terroir wine is elegant and aged for year and a half in barrel. Wine very intense truffle and plum flavors, as well as round and long.
Grenache Old Wines, medium-bodied red wine. ruby color, aroma of violets and hints of vanilla and herbs, tasty and soft tannins.
Solivent, Mediterranean unoaked and 100% organic. In the mouth, the four elements of nature fire, earth, water and air. Varieties 60% Lledoner negre (Black grenache), 20% Monastrell, 20% Syrah. Ruby color, aromas of black fruit and mineral notes. Complex and fine tannins that add volume. Deep and elegant.
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