Immerse yourself in our 3-day autumn adventure, where you’ll hold a winemaker’s secateurs to harvest the grapes and live the ultimate journey from vine to wine!

Following a quick comfort stop, our first midday bodega visit showcases striking architecture blending geometric design with historic cave heritage along the Júcar River cliffs. Returning to the village, you can choose from great restaurants for lunch before we enter the La Manchuela DO. Here, we will sample five wines at a family-run winery committed to ethical production, protecting Mediterranean heritage, and reviving artisanal traditions. We then check into our hotel to relax before an evening meal with wine and water included.

After breakfast, we pass vibrant vineyards at the height of the harvest, heading for a full day in the Utiel-Requena DO. Get ready to be captivated by a prestigious, family-run estate holding Spain’s highest quality classification—Vino de Pago—where elegant wines age inside historic, 19th-century underground fermentation tanks. Next, we take a journey through a fascinating network of subterranean cellars dug into the medieval subsoil of Requena, followed by free time for lunch. We discover a fascinating restored house dedicated to the once prosperous silk industry, before moving onto the countryside to visit an exquisitely preserved antique bodega, cheese making and rural life complex, all topped off with a tasting of local wines. The day concludes with an evening meal accompanied by wine and water.

Fueled by breakfast, we prepare ourselves to participate in the cosecha (harvest) or more specifically the vendimia (grape harvest). Invited by Juan and Susan to their reclaimed plots, we’ll don gloves and (very carefully) share sharp secateurs as we snip off a few bunches of grapes, experiencing first hand this crucial part of wine production. We’ll transport our fruits to their cellar to see the first stages of turning grapes into wine! Juan will let us into more secrets as he explains and show-cooks a traditional dish for our lunch and we sample some of the unique wines which they passionately produce in their micro-winery. They champion minimal-intervention natural wines, field blends, and ancient artisanal methods to express the absolute purest, unadulterated essence of old, rare indigenous varieties. Laden with our memories and bottles, it’s time to head home, with a comfort stop on route, arriving locally at approximately 17:30.

Join us for this perfectly paced, exclusive autumn journey where fascinating history and the timeless joy of wine making come together for an unforgettable grape harvest experience. 

• Date: Tuesday 8th – Thursday 10th September 2026
• Time: Leave locally 08:15, Return locally 17:30
• Pick Ups: La Zenia Consum, Torrevieja Carrefour, Quesada Consum & Alenda Golf
• Included: Coach Travel, 2* Hotel Aros HB with wine and water, 1 Midday Meal, 4 Bodegas & 21 Wines to Taste (including espumoso/sparkling wines), 3 Museums; Underground Bodegas, Restored Silk House & Antique Bodega Rural Complex,Grape Harvest Experience & Cooking Lesson
• Price:
  • Shared Room: 395€ per person
  • Single Room: 435€
• Payment:
  • Deposit: 195€ deposit at time of booking
  • Final payment on the 17th July of 200€ per person in a shared room and 240€ single room
• Single Rooms: 6 available – please email jessicahayes@eurotourguide.com before booking to check availability
• Hotel: All rooms have walk in showers 
• Note: If you have any questions, including suitability of the coach tour for any health, mobility or phobia issues which you might have, please email jessicahayes@eurotourguide.com before booking.
• Basic Travel Assistance Insurance: is included in the cost of this coach tour, with point of repatriation being the origin of this tour.
• Passenger Numbers: minimum of 24, maximum of 34