Bodegas Ramírez de la Piscina — Attraction in San Vicente de la Sonsierra

In the early morning hours, we had Gumer as the presenter of the wines. We took a 1 hour tour and were able to taste all their wines for FREE.

As visitors to Rioja quickly discover, free tours and free wine tasting are not that common any more in Rioja. Some places seem to want to make more money on visitors without selling any wine. The chant of "vinotourism" is omnipresent in la Rioja. Sad to see. It reduces the Old World charm to have visitors pay for the wineries to promote their product. What happened to the concept of the customer showing their appreciation through the purchase of the product?

The bottle price-point at Bodegas Ramirez de la Piscina is really good and the wines were excellent.

The Crianza and Reserva were our favorites. The Gran Reserva for the cost was superb.

We did not drink a lot of whites while in Rioja, but this one was blended with Viura and two other white varietals which made it distinctive and...

We were fortunate to have Gumer as our presenter of the wines, and enjoyed an hour-plus of tasting late in the day through the joven (red, white), barrel-aged white, crianza, reserva, vendemmia seleccion, and gran reserva, and then were treated to a tour of the production and cellar facilities.

Ramirez de la Piscina creates excellent wines, at exceptional price points; a standout in terms of quality. The Sonsierra terroir is like nothing else, and produces tempranillo of exceptional structure and finesse. Highly recommended for enotourism, the overall experience, and caliber...

We whent for a wine tasting. We already knew the wine from a retail spanish wine shop in the Netherlands. There this wine was highly recommended. Charming host, very good wine and also good prices. Gewoon heen gaan, krijg je...