Private Wine Cellar Tour of Lanzarote: Vineyards, wines and cheeses

Full Day Wine Tasting Tour

This tour is a cultural trip through the wine production in La Geria, a unique inherited science, which will teach us the particularity of these vineyards.

You will taste a selection of wines from three of Lanzarote's best historic wineries (Bodegas Rubicón, El Grifo and Los Bermejos) within the La Geria wine region, a protected landscape unlike any other in the world.

This excursion is educational with a deep focus between geology and culturelinked to the production of wine in Lanzarote. You will also learn about the generations of people who have worked for centuries to develop Lanzarote's vineyards.

1. Rubicon Winery

To learn about the history of Bodegas Rubicón we must go back to 1570. At Bodegas Rubicón, the wines will be Dry Rubicon, semi-dry Rubicon and sweet Rubicon.

You will accompany them with another of the gastronomic jewels of the Canary Islands: goat cheese from Lanzarote.

El Faro semi-cured, cured or soft cheese is offered for tasting, with distinctions in competitions such as the last World Cheese Award.

2. The Tap

The winery oldest in the Canary Islands and among the ten oldest in Spain. It has been making wines uninterruptedly since 1775 in the same winery as El Grifo. At El Grifo, a free visit to its museum and we will taste 3 wines, accompanied by cheese.

3. Los Bermejos

For several centuries it belonged to one of the most important families of Lanzarote. With the turn of the century, it was given a new impulse and within a few years it became the leading winery on the island.

This visit consists of a half-hour explanation The tour starts in the vineyards and tells the context in which the island's wines are born, moving on to the inside of the winery with a brief explanation of the winemaking process and ending in the shop with a presentation of the variety of wines.

At the end of the visit, each person has a tasting of two wines to choose from with a cheese and sponge cake tapa.

Contemplate, breathe, feel and energise yourself

Vineyards

In 1500, the Cortijo de La Geria was one of the most precious and richest on the island of Lanzarote. Nobody imagined that soon all hell would break loose in Timanfaya and long years of volcanic eruptions would devastate villages and farmland. changing the landscape forever.

After years of struggle, loss and expansion, generation after generation, the longing to involve visitors in a piece of Lanzarote's history.

In the words of César Manrique:

"It is about living towards the future, contributing to building a clean, intelligent, quality-of-life alternative. We must not lose heart, we have to move forward, be vigilant and keep our critical conscience alive, because the future has never been achieved, we have to do it from the present. It is a question of making the tourist industry coexist with the defence of the territory and our own culture. And this coexistence is possible, but, above all, it is necessary, obligatory if we are not to live with our backs turned to the future".

Wines

Today, Path takes you on a visit to 3 wineries, whose historical-artistic heritage has more than three centuries of history and is backed by hundreds of awards. The wineries that we visit have the guarantee of quality Designation of Origin Lanzarote and are annual award winners in the most prestigious international wine competitions: Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, Decanter Awards, Berliner Wein Trophy, Vinalies Internationales, Concours International de Lyon and AWC Vienna.

Cheese

Lanzaroteño cheese has formed an important part of the culture y island tradition.

Cheese making has been a practice that the farmer has used for to conserve surplus milk.

In Lanzarote, cheese is made mainly from goat's milk, specifically from the majorera breed which is the island's own.

Cheese fresh, cheese tender, cheese semi-cured, cheese curation curado and signature cheeses are the main varieties that you can find in Lanzarote cheeses.

A journey of all the senses

Our journey will begin in the La Geria Valley located in the heart of the island. A breathtaking landscape of lava and lava mantles characteristic of Lanzarote.

In this wine tour we will tell you about the history of the island and how the locals have been able to turn the aridity of Lanzarote's landscape into a an advantage for vine cultivationusing a unique method that has made La Geria a Protected Natural Area.

Also, you will taste the wines resulting from this practice. La Geria, the heart of Lanzarote.

In this lunar landscape, where the Timanfaya volcano The grapes are cultivated in a way that is unique in the world: to protect the fruit from the wind and sun, the vines are planted in "picón" pits surrounded by walls of volcanic rocks, called sanded.

The grapes are harvested in July and August to make wine, mainly white, with golden reflections and floral scents known as Malvasia.

We have prepared two areas for the tasting, which will vary depending on the weather: embraced by the vineyards o between barrels inside the winery.