Museum and Restaurant Dinastia Vivanco

In these wineries, apart from making a visit, you can take courses on wine tasting at various levels. I took the introductory one: you enter a room conditioned for this purpose along with other people, all of them sit down at the table where there are various glasses full of wine. One of them has white wine and the rest are red wines of the year, "crianza", "reserva" and "gran reserva", according to the different stages of the age of the wine. Next to the wine there is a spittoon because although you taste them all, you only drink the good ones.

Every table has a fluorescent tool used to analyze the colors of each wine. In the beginning, the teacher of the course made us smell an essence to see whether we could guess which aroma it was, and afterwards we started the analysis and the characteristics of each one of the wines.

We went to see the museum-winery and we did not know they had a great variety of excellent "pinchos" in the cafeteria. The price was normal and the quality very high. I recommend it 100%. It was a shame we were short of time and we did not have time to visit Briones...

In the town of Briones, you can have a unique wine experience at Dynasty Vivanco Bodegas, a place where you can get information on the wine and learn about the different stages of wine making, the care and the different varieties. There's a wine culture museum, a large, modern winery, and a restaurant and tasting room.