The most family-friendly wineries in Catalonia

Practising wine tourism with the family is much more than just learning about the wine and cava production process. In Catalonia, there are many wineries that welcome children on very special family visits, where they can experience the thrill of travelling in a carriage through the vineyards, searching for hidden treasures, riding a burricleta and discovering the magic that makes the grape juice into wine and cava.

Carriage and burricleta rides through the vineyards
On the Costa Daurada, Adernats – Vinícola de Nulles the DO Cava winery offers you the chance to enjoy wine tourism with the family and discover one of Catalonia’s wine cathedrals. You ride in a carriage with horses and enjoy a pleasant stroll among octogenarian vineyards and dry-stone borders. The tour finishes at the winery, a modernist masterpiece designed by Cèsar Martinell, a disciple of Gaudí. Inside, you will learn about its history and the winemaking process.

Another wonderful ride, in this case in a carriage with mules, is the proposal of the Oller del Mas winery, from the Pla de Bages DO. During the ride, you will have the opportunity to stop at two vineyard huts, where the farmers used to keep their tools, and the adults will enjoy a wine tasting, followed by an olive oil tasting and a family lunch on the same area.

Would you like a Burricleta tour? They are waiting for you at Celler Clos Pons, in the Costers del Segre DO. The tour is a 4 km walk through the farm’s historic vineyards and olive trees, ending with a snack in the family farmhouse. During the route you will taste the vinegars of the farm. The best part is that when you visit their secret cave, a surprise awaits you! What will be inside?

Picnics, breakfasts, brunches in the vineyards and Simón Coll chocolate
At the La Vinyeta, winery on the Costa Brava, you have two options after the guided tour. You can choose between a traditional country breakfast with cold meats, pate and homemade bread, as well as homemade olive oil, or a picnic in the vineyards. The children will love to see the bee hives that have been set up in the vineyards and centenary olive trees to assist pollination and, incidentally, to produce honey.

Special visits with raptor flights and orientation circuits
The wine and cava world can be perfectly matched with other activities. Sumarroca winery offers a peculiar guided tour that includes an interesting birds of prey flight demonstration and a country breakfast with cava for the adults and juices for the children.

At Raimat Natura the proposal is very natural: an orienteering circuit with map or GPS. Enjoy a natural environment surrounded by ecological and organic vineyards, where you will find your way around the flora and fauna of the park, located 15 km from Lleida. Access to this natural space is free and you can explore it on foot or by electric bicycle, which you can rent inside to take a ride afterwards. The bicycles are equipped with child seats for up to 18 kg.

The secrets of wine and cava production
Discover the secrets of cava production in an entertaining and educational way at two DO Cava wineries. Caves Vilarnau organises family guided tours, with grape treading, where children can experience for themselves how cava is made. They also have painting workshops that are followed by a tasting of non-alcoholic cava. This way the little ones can do as the adults do and enjoy its flavour and bubbles.

Visit Caves Freixenet where, in the cellar, the excitement is present in the children because since 1861, the cellar has not always been made on foot. A little train takes you to the modernist cellar so that the whole family can enjoy an exciting experience of the world of wine. You will also visit the old cellars, which are very interesting and located 20 metres underground.

Farm animals and a treasure hunt
Do you want to discover the great treasure of Cavas Gramona? Well, it’s its chickens, geese, donkeys, sheep, horses and cows that help to improve the ecosystem of the farm’s vineyard. When you go to visit them, as well as discovering how they make cava in a sustainable way, you will also be able to see how they work the vineyards with the horses, as they used to do in the old days.

Visit the Avgvstvs Forvm winery will be like being in a Roman film. Playing as Romans, armed with a map and accompanied by a guide, you will have to follow the game and have fun discovering the Roman origins of the winery. The activity is for children between 4 and 10 years old. It also includes food and wine tastings.

Package tours: Wine tourism, culture and sport
EnigMasroig, the history of the winery turned into a game. The activity proposed by Masroig winery, in the DO Montsant, sounds exciting, doesn’t it? If you visit it, you can expect a very entertaining guided tour. While you see how wine is produced among centuries-old mills and barrel cellars, you’ll have to solve puzzles and at the end you’ll receive a special prize. Reservations are required.