Vivanco Winery in Briones in La Rioja Alta @Photo: Vivanco
Just a year ago I had the opportunity to make a wine tourism getaway to The Rioja, and I was surprised by the spectacular autumn landscapes with the vineyards covered by reddish and yellowish colors.
It is certainly a precious time for enjoy wine tourism, but this time I am going to propose a visit beyond meeting wineries and enjoying delicious wines.
Did you know that in the Rioja Alta is the Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture, considered by the UNWTO World Tourism Organization how the best wine museum in the world?
The opportunity to discover this museum will confer a special attraction to your escape from wine tourism to La Rioja, which also explains that Vivanco Receive more than 100,000 visitors a year.
Vivanco Wine Culture Museum
The museum was founded in 2004 by the Vivanco Foundation constituted by the family that owns the Vivanco Winery from the town of Briones.
In modern facilities of more than 4,000 square meters objects and artistic heritage linked to the more than 8,000 years of wine history are preserved.
Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture in Rioja Alta @Photo: Vivanco
He Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture it is the result of a family dream, and in it the collections that the Vivanco family He has been collecting for the past 40 years.
During the visit you will visit six rooms dedicated to different themes, reviewing the beginnings of the wine culture, the manufacture of the barrels, the cork or the glass of the bottles, or the winemaking processes, such as pressing, racking, clarifying or filtering.
Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture in La Rioja Alta @Photo: Vivanco
A prominent corner of the museum is undoubtedly the art and archeology collection that show the link with the world of wine, with works by artists as prestigious asPicasso, Dürer, I look, Sorolla, John Gray, Barceló, Mantegna or Dalí.
Just to see this section of the museum it is worth considering Visit of the Vivanco Winery.
Wine tourism experiences at Vivanco Winery @Foto: Vivanco
The museum is completed with a certainly curious collection of more than 3,000 corkscrews, which has been used since the 18th century to open wine bottles, and the Bacchus Garden, an outdoor space where you can discover more than 200 different grapes from Spain and the rest of the world.
That passion for the world of wine is also reflected in the Documentation Center dedicated to that world, another of the initiatives of the Vivanco Foundation.
Wine tasting at Bodega Vivanco de la Rioja Alta @Photo: Vivanco
During your visit you can also tour the winery, with modern underground facilities that minimize environmental impact and, at the same time, achieve the best conditions of temperature and humidity for the rest of the wine.
Of course you can participate in tastings that will allow you to know the range of Vivanco Winery elaborations, from its young white and pink wines, through the red aging and reserve, in which the grape tempranillo acquires the greatest prominence, until the so-called Vicanco collection of limited productions, aged that combine different varieties of grapes, tempranillo, graceful, Garnacha, mazuelo Y maturana ink.
Autumnal landscapes in the vineyards of Bodega Vivanco @ Photo: Vivanco
And also in Vivanco you can enjoy gastronomic experiences in his creative and sophisticated restaurant and gastrobar. With the so-called winecooking, the wine continues maintaining its prominence in the elaboration of the dishes through sauces and reductions.
In sum, in Vivanco Winery and in its museum you find an option to see the world of wine differently.
You can make your reservation online on the Vivanco website, or if you prefer, call toll free 900 834 113.
