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Thumbnail Historic Cellar Tour & Wine Tasting at Bodegas Casa Primicia in Laguardia
Basque Country, Araba / Álava, Laguardia - (Rioja, Rioja Alavesa, Álava) 1 Hour 15 Minutes Min 2, Max 20
From €17

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Great tour

Rate: 5 out of 5 7/1/25
This was a really good tour of this interesting building - learnt so much about the history of the building and the current owners. Followed by some beautiful wines. Highly recommend
Lorraine

About Winery and Wines

Casa de la Primicia (XI century) is the oldest building of Laguardia village, the capital of Rioja Alavesa. From the beginning of the 15th century, here the church collected the Tithes and First offerings, farming taxes.

The sons of Julian Madrid continue the legacy and increase it in the surroundings of the Laguardia village, without forgetting the roots, restoring the old and historic cellar, a small jewel in the heart of the people. Today, Julian Madrid’s grandchildren honour him by carrying on the values he established at the vineyard. Casa Primicia is a magic place, a temple of wine. Its well-preserved cellars are silent witnesses to other periods and other people, and its restoration is the homage from the family to the dream of that vine grower from Laguardia called Julian Madrid.

Taking advantage of the gentle microclimate of the area, the Bodegas Casa Primicia vineyard extends from the estates situated in the foothills of the Cantabria Mountains to the plains near the River Ebro. Mountain range and river, the natural borders of a shire that lives by and for wine, the Rioja Alavesa. The Carravalseca is the jewel of all the vineyards, an organic estate surrounded by olives in a unique environment, in an estate with the name of an endorheic natural protected lagoon.