Check-In, Estate Tour & Tasting
Hotel Marqués de Riscal offers a property experience centered on the contrast between the 19th-century bodega and Frank Gehry's contemporary architecture. The estate setting makes Rioja's wine history visible through cellars, bottle archives, vineyards, and design. A tasting introduces the house's style through Tempranillo, traditional aging, and the estate's long role in modern Spanish wine. The experience is shaped by the property's ability to connect wine, architecture, and place in one setting.
Welcome Dinner at Marqués de Riscal
MICHELIN Selected Restaurant
Marqués de Riscal is the MICHELIN-selected restaurant within the hotel-winery complex in Elciego. The cuisine is overseen by Francis Paniego and draws on Rioja and Álava ingredients, Basque references, and seasonal produce. The restaurant's tasting menus connect the estate's wines to food with a clear regional logic. The setting beneath Gehry's titanium roof gives the meal a strong architectural identity without removing it from Rioja's culinary foundations.
Hotel Marqués de Riscal
One MICHELIN Key
MICHELIN Selected Restaurant (Marqués de Riscal)
No. 1 The World's 50 Best Vineyards (2024) (Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal)
Daily Breakfast (1860 Tradición)
Hotel Marqués de Riscal is set within the City of Wine in Elciego, where Frank Gehry's architecture stands beside the historic winery buildings. The hotel connects contemporary design with Rioja's wine heritage, placing rooms, cellar visits, dining, and spa facilities within a single estate environment. Its dining program includes the MICHELIN-selected Marqués de Riscal restaurant and 1860 Tradición for breakfast. The property is distinctive because architecture, winemaking history, and hospitality are inseparable from the stay.
Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal Vineyard Tour, Tasting & Lunch
No. 1 The World's 50 Best Vineyards (2024)
Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal is one of Rioja's foundational estates, established in 1858 in Elciego. The winery is known for its role in modernizing Spanish wine, its Reserva style, and its long archive of vintages held in the historic cellar known as The Cathedral. The estate also reflects a broad commitment to sustainable agriculture, traditional pruning, and regional grape varieties. A visit offers Rioja through vineyard history, cellar architecture, aging practices, and the cultural scale of the City of Wine.
Dinner at Los Caños
MICHELIN Selected Restaurant
Los Caños is set in Haro's historic La Herradura quarter, inside a 16th-century palatial-style building. The room balances historic detail with a more contemporary aesthetic, giving the restaurant a clear sense of place within one of Rioja's historic wine towns. The kitchen focuses on deep-rooted traditional cuisine, with tapas and pintxos handled with polish and precision. Dishes such as a pork sandwich with Morbier cheese, Iberian dewlap, and cured egg yolk show how the restaurant brings refinement to familiar regional formats.
Hotel Marqués de Riscal
One MICHELIN Key
MICHELIN Selected Restaurant (Marqués de Riscal)
No. 1 The World's 50 Best Vineyards (2024) (Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal)
Daily Breakfast (1860 Tradición)
Hotel Marqués de Riscal is set within the City of Wine in Elciego, where Frank Gehry's architecture stands beside the historic winery buildings. The hotel connects contemporary design with Rioja's wine heritage, placing rooms, cellar visits, dining, and spa facilities within a single estate environment. Its dining program includes the MICHELIN-selected Marqués de Riscal restaurant and 1860 Tradición for breakfast. The property is distinctive because architecture, winemaking history, and hospitality are inseparable from the stay.
Riojan Pepper Producer Tour, Tasting & Lunch
Riojan peppers are central to the region's agricultural and culinary identity. A producer visit focuses on cultivation, roasting, peeling, preservation, and the handling required to maintain sweetness, texture, and depth. The tasting shows why peppers function as a foundational ingredient rather than a supporting garnish. Lunch places the product within Rioja's table, where vegetables, legumes, meats, olive oil, and wine form a direct regional vocabulary.
Riojan Cooking Class & Dinner
A Riojan cooking class gives practical shape to the region's food culture beyond the cellar. The session includes vegetables, legumes, preserved foods, grilled meats, olive oil, and preparations built for wine-country eating. The emphasis is on technique, balance, and the agricultural products that define local cooking. Dinner follows from the class, turning the ingredients and methods into a complete regional meal.
Hotel Marqués de Riscal
One MICHELIN Key
MICHELIN Selected Restaurant (Marqués de Riscal)
No. 1 The World's 50 Best Vineyards (2024) (Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal)
Daily Breakfast (1860 Tradición)
Hotel Marqués de Riscal is set within the City of Wine in Elciego, where Frank Gehry's architecture stands beside the historic winery buildings. The hotel connects contemporary design with Rioja's wine heritage, placing rooms, cellar visits, dining, and spa facilities within a single estate environment. Its dining program includes the MICHELIN-selected Marqués de Riscal restaurant and 1860 Tradición for breakfast. The property is distinctive because architecture, winemaking history, and hospitality are inseparable from the stay.
Bodegas Ysios Vineyard Tour, Tasting & Lunch
No. 3 The World's 50 Best Vineyards (2025)
Bodegas Ysios is a Rioja Alavesa winery set at the base of the Sierra de Cantabria. Santiago Calatrava's undulating building gives the estate a strong visual identity, but the wines remain rooted in old vines, altitude, and the region's traditional varieties. The portfolio includes single-vineyard and limited-production wines that show Tempranillo in relation to soil, slope, and vintage. A visit connects architecture, vineyard work, cellar aging, and the mountain landscape that shapes this part of Rioja.
Farewell Dinner at Venta Moncalvillo
Two MICHELIN Stars
Venta Moncalvillo is a two-MICHELIN-star restaurant in the Rioja village of Daroca de Rioja. Ignacio and Carlos Echapresto have built the restaurant around a close relationship with their garden, greenhouse, cellar, and surrounding landscape. The cuisine gives vegetables and daily harvests a central role, often working with a small number of elements on the plate. The experience is distinguished by immediacy, sustainability, and a quiet form of regional precision.
Hotel Marqués de Riscal
One MICHELIN Key
MICHELIN Selected Restaurant (Marqués de Riscal)
No. 1 The World's 50 Best Vineyards (2024) (Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal)
Daily Breakfast (1860 Tradición)
Hotel Marqués de Riscal is set within the City of Wine in Elciego, where Frank Gehry's architecture stands beside the historic winery buildings. The hotel connects contemporary design with Rioja's wine heritage, placing rooms, cellar visits, dining, and spa facilities within a single estate environment. Its dining program includes the MICHELIN-selected Marqués de Riscal restaurant and 1860 Tradición for breakfast. The property is distinctive because architecture, winemaking history, and hospitality are inseparable from the stay.
Hotel Marqués de Riscal
One MICHELIN Key
MICHELIN Selected Restaurant (Marqués de Riscal)
No. 1 The World's 50 Best Vineyards (2024) (Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal)
Daily Breakfast (1860 Tradición)
Hotel Marqués de Riscal is set within the City of Wine in Elciego, where Frank Gehry's architecture stands beside the historic winery buildings. The hotel connects contemporary design with Rioja's wine heritage, placing rooms, cellar visits, dining, and spa facilities within a single estate environment. Its dining program includes the MICHELIN-selected Marqués de Riscal restaurant and 1860 Tradición for breakfast. The property is distinctive because architecture, winemaking history, and hospitality are inseparable from the stay.
