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Wine & Dine: Marques de Riscal & Ysios Tour
5.0
23 Ratings
Bilbao
Explore Marques de Riscal and Ysios wineries, savor premium wines, local delicacies, and a three-course Rioja lunch. Book your Modern Architecture Wine Tour now!
Explore Marques de Riscal and Ysios wineries, savor premium wines, local delicacies, and a three-course Rioja lunch. Book your Modern Architecture Wine Tour now!
Duration:
8 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Biscay - Enjoy a scenic drive from Bilbao to the Wine Country, taking in the stunning views. The journey will take approximately an hour and a half.
- Bodegas Marques de Riscal - FULL WINERY TOUR AT MARQUES DE RISCAL: The first stop is the renowned Marques de Riscal winery, acclaimed as the best winery in the world! Join a small group tour with…
- Biscay - Enjoy a scenic drive from Bilbao to the Wine Country, taking in the stunning views. The journey will take approximately an hour and a half.
- Bodegas Marques de Riscal - FULL WINERY TOUR AT MARQUES DE RISCAL: The first stop is the renowned Marques de Riscal winery, acclaimed as the best winery in the world! Join a small group tour with fewer than 25 participants, experience a comprehensive winery tour, and savor three of their finest wines accompanied by local snacks.
- Bodegas Ysios - WINE TASTING AT YSIOS: The second stop is the remarkable Ysios winery. Since its opening in 2000, it has become the most iconic building in the region. Here, visitors can explore the building and enjoy tasting two of their premium wines, paired with cheese, serrano ham, and cold meats. Learn about the building and its architect, Santiago Calatrava.
- Laguardia - PICTURE STOP: The next visit is to the medieval town of Laguardia, a 10th-century walled town, and one of the most beautiful towns in the Basque Country.
- Labastida - LUNCH INCLUDED in Laguardia or another nearby town, depending on availability: In this charming town, enjoy a traditional three-course lunch with dessert. Vegetarian options are available. This will be a comfortable and delightful classic lunch experience!
- Province of Alava - The picturesque return drive to Bilbao will take about an hour and a half.
What's Included
- Visit of Ysios winery for wine tasting of 2 of their premium wines
- Full tour at Marques de Riscal winery, and tasting of 3 of their excellent wines
- Visit the Medieval town of Laguardia
- Lunch
- Narration of the Basque history, geography, and fun facts
- Enjoy local appetizers such as cheese, serrano ham, and cold meats
- Drop off in San Sebastian or parts of Rioja at the end of the tour
- Visit of Ysios winery for wine tasting of 2 of their premium wines
- Full tour at Marques de Riscal winery, and tasting of 3 of their excellent wines
- Visit the Medieval town of Laguardia
- Lunch
- Narration of the Basque history, geography, and fun facts
- Enjoy local appetizers such as cheese, serrano ham, and cold meats
- Drop off in San Sebastian or parts of Rioja at the end of the tour
What's Not Included
- Gratuities, optional and appreciated
- Gratuities, optional and appreciated
Additional Information
This tour is available every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If your desired date isn’t listed, please reach out to us.
On this incredible tour, participants will enjoy a comprehensive winery tour at Marques de Riscal, the best winery in the world, and visit Ysios, ranked fourth best globally, to sample their exquisite wines. This experience is…
This tour is available every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If your desired date isn’t listed, please reach out to us.
On this incredible tour, participants will enjoy a comprehensive winery tour at Marques de Riscal, the best winery in the world, and visit Ysios, ranked fourth best globally, to sample their exquisite wines. This experience is complemented by local cheese, serrano ham, and cold meats. Following the tour, a delightful traditional three-course Rioja lunch awaits!
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Pick-up or drop-off in different cities: We offer pick-up or drop-off in various cities, such as pick-up in San Sebastian and drop-off in Bilbao, but only if booked through our website. If booked here, pick-up and drop-off are only available in Bilbao.
- Tours en Español: Las visitas a Marques de Riscal son en inglés, aunque todos los guÃas hablan español.
- Availability: if you need your tour in a different day, please let us know
- Public tours only run with at least 4 people; couples welcome to book
Location
Bertiz Cafe Bakery
Henao Kalea
"Berriz Cafe Bakery" HENAO KALEA 15, 48009 Bilbao. Don't confuse it with another bakery nearby with the same name and similar address.
We pick up by this coffee shop, you may wait right in front of it or inside having coffee
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(23 Ratings)
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Danielsq3254ua
Sep 22, 2025
Wonderful wineries - Wonderful experience. Great guide. And such beautiful vineyards; Architecturally, scenery - and the wine of course. A nice small group of- felt very intimate, easy and fun. Highly recommend.
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Dunno66
Sep 19, 2025
great tour with a great guide - Our guide Inaki was terrific, the tour at Marques de Riscal is highly recommended, as well as the wine tasting at Ysios. Very beautiful also is the little scenic village La Guardia, where we had a coffee break. Before heading home there is a nice lunch in a restaurant, that was so nice as well. Go for the tour, it is great, quite expensive but worth the money!
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Leselen
Sep 11, 2025
Exceeded Our Expectation! - We had an outstanding experience with this wine tour. It exceeded our expectations. My husband and I have had several wine tours in Spain and in Portugal. This was wonderful. Our tour guide and driver, Anton, was professional, personable and very knowledgeable. We very much enjoyed our tour and wine tasting at Marquez de Riscal, our tour of the medieval city of LaGuardia, our wine tasting at Ysios, and our delicious lunch in Elciego. We were with a small group of very friendly, fun people. I also want to say Monica San Pedro was wonderful to work with. She made the process very easy. I would highly recommend the Marquez de Riscal and Ysios Wine Tour with lunch!
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Peterbg1509vb
Sep 10, 2025
A wonderful time in rioja - We had a great time on our tour-
Anton was very gracious and very knowledgeable about the region, the culture, and certainly wine-
The two wineries were extremely interesting in their juxtapositions of architecture, approach and tour- in each case the wines were lovely -
We would recommend this tour without reservation!
Bravo Anton and Monica
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Margot
Sep 3, 2025
Five Star Rioja Wine Tour - I joined Anton with 4 other friends on a wine tour to the Rioja region from Bilbao. The experience was top notch from start to finish. Anton has a spiffy 8 passenger Mercedes van with a speaker system that made it easy for even the third row to hear. He spent the entire hour of the trip from Bilbao to Rioja giving us relevant history and wine information
We went to two wineries and tasted 5 wines. One was in a Frank Gehry designed building/hotel rated the best winery in the world in 2024 and the other was a small boutique winery.m with delicious wines that are not sold in the US. The wines were both excellent and there was an opportunity to buy wine if you wished.
We visited the village of LaGuardia in between the wineries. It was a charming medieval village with a clock that comes alive each hour.
After the wine tastings we went to lunch at a nice lunch spot in the village of La Bastida . The food was quite good including delicious Spanish flan.
Then we headed back to Bilbao in the nice van. The tour al together took 9 hours. It was a day well spent. I highly recommend this tour.
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Janepryde
Jul 18, 2025
The best day trip from Bilbao - Anton was an exceptional guide. He was informative, helpful, engaging. Nothing was too much trouble for him.
The day passed so quickly.
Both vineyards visited were exceptional. The wines were superb and the three course meal delicious.
We saw beautiful Basque countryside, visited stunning walled town and shared the day with 2 interesting passengers from Mexico.
This family of two teenagers and mum and dad had a wonderful day and cannot rate the trip and Anton highly enough.
Don’t just think about doing.
Do it.
You won’t regret.
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Margrit
Jul 18, 2025
Great visit We were ver exited because we wanted to visit this two winery and their unique architecture. - This tour gives you the opportunity of visiting two wineries that are ver important and unique specially for their architecture.
Ysios was a breathtaking experience.
Our tour guide and driver, Anton was very nice, explained us many interesting issues. Very friendly and polite.
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Global28749565842
Jul 3, 2025
Will recommend 100% highly recommended for any traveler, our family enjoyed - Very nice tour and very professional and very punctual, veicle very clean and good air conditioning for these hot day here
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Trailblazer639664
May 18, 2025
Wine✅ Food✅ - Our North Coast Wine Tour was amazing! This was not our first time in Spain, but it was our first time on a wine tour in Spain - and Anton took care of everything! The wineries were ‘top of the line’, the lunch in LaGuardia was charming and perfect, and our transportation was comfortable and accommodating!
Anton’s knowledge of wine was extensive. He was also incredibly knowledgeable about the history and culture of the area! We would definitely book North Coast Tours again! Thank you Anton!
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Phillyfanuk
May 13, 2025
Great wines in great scenery - Great wines and great scenery, this tour was smooth and easy and all the heavy lifting of driving and arranging the visits was managed perfectly for us.
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