Bodega Museo Del Moscatel — Attraction in Chipiona

For me it was one of the bigest disappointment in my life. I traveled from London just to visit this place and learn about Moscatel grape and wine. I am a sommelier. Unfortunately they don't do visit for the English speaking visitors and when you are only by yourself, you have a small chance to go inside of Museum and enjoy your visit. Only Spanish speakers are alowed to have a tour there. They are not really guests orientated. A busy comercial sherry wine bar on the side. And to be honest Chipiona is not a beautiful town too. They should not use the word MUSEUM, if you aren't alowed to visit this place for a cultural and historical experience. A real disaster and ignorance for humans sensitivity and a luck of respect to other nations and...

A large Bodega where you can see the Barrels up to 3 levels on top of each other forming the Solera system where the New wine is put into the top tier and from the bottom tier they take no more than a third of the wine and it's replaced by the same amount of the wine from the middle tier and so on so that the wine is always the same...

Enclavado cerca del centro histórico de la ciudad de Chipiona, el Museo del Moscatel ofrece al visitante un paseo por la historia y la cultura del vino.

Formado por siete áreas temáticas, el visitante contará con escenarios reales y virtuales donde podrá ver e interactuar con modos de vida y prácticas artesanales de producción del vino en diferentes épocas históricas. También podrá conocer las técnicas de producción actuales. El objetivo es lograr que el visitante pueda hacerse una imagen global y entender el universo enológico.

Áreas del Museo: Ecomuseo del viñedo del moscatel de Chipiona, Bodega Romana y Alfarería (Lonja Romana de Caepia), Renacimiento (Siglo XV), Época moderna (Siglo XV-XVII), Viñatería contemporánea (Siglo XVIII-XX), Museo Corporativo de la Bodega, Museo de la Ciencia del Vino, Ruta enoturística por la bodega y Museo de la cultura...