PIONEERS OF WINE TOURISM
Bodegas Peñafalcón opted for the trend of wine tourism, being one of the pioneering wineries in the foundation of the Ribera del Duero Route Bodegas Peñafalcón uses one of its facilities exclusively for wine tourism, with approximately 1,200 m2. The visitor, lover of wine, in the Peñafalcón wine tourism, will be able to enjoy the different trades of our great-grandparents' times, from the Roman plows to the tools that are currently used on earth. In the guided tour of the facilities will be explained and will be: Aperos and farm tools pulled by animals (males and mules); the first gasoline and oil irrigation motors of rope start and crank; machines and tools closely linked with bread and wine, hence the saying 'with bread and wine the way is going' and without forgetting the different measures of wheat, we also mention the times of barter; the next step is the explanation of vineyards and Peñafalcón wine making, talking about barrels, presses, tanks, etc ... Another of the highlights of the visit to the facilities is like a walk through the past, where the imagination takes us to the times of yesterday seeing the machines of the grandfathers, who worked them in 1926. This section allows to know the space in which the tools and the machines were repaired with which the field was worked and the warehouses in which the wines were elaborated in that time, almost a century ago.
AN UNIQUE LEGACY
We mention and remember with pride the native wineries, excavated underground and their customs (with perforated doors and lights); We see tools related to the cooperage and the transport of grapes (wicker behavior and baskets) that were carried in cars pulled by males or mules, which was the transport system of the time. The visit becomes a journey through the evolution and history of wine and allows to know the evolution of the machines that replace the winery beam and ends seeing the old winery beam, the spindle and the stone.
The visitors, once they have done all the tour, have enjoyed and their imagination has moved to the times of our ancestors, they are eager to taste and taste the wines with a tasting with their respective appetizer. A unique privilege that not all wineries can offer since they are wines of up to 5 years in barrels with Gold and Great Gold medals.
