# Peñafiel with an overnight stay: a long tasting at Pago de Carraovejas, the wine castle, lamb in a mill and dinner at Origen-es You leave the car at the hotel, taste four wines at Pago de Carraovejas, climb up to the wine castle, have lamb beside the Duratón and dine and sleep in a 1922 flour mill. Wednesday to Sunday. Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/castile-and-leon/penafiel/itineraries/long-tasting-castle-and-roast-lamb · Revisado: 2026-11-13 ## El día - 09:30 · Salida: 45 min by car (via the A-1 and the N-122 from Madrid, or the N-122 from Valladolid) - 09:45 · Hotel AF Pesquera (leave the car and your luggage at the hotel, in the old flour mill below the castle) · Hotel AF Pesquera - 5 min by taxi - 10:00 · Tasting among the vines at Pago de Carraovejas, facing Peñafiel castle (Paisajes con Alma · four wines and four bites · €85 · book on its website) · Pago de Carraovejas, From €85 per person - 5 min by taxi - 12:30 · Peñafiel Castle and Provincial Wine Museum (guided castle and self-guided museum · €6.60 · last castle visit, 40 min before closing) - 15 min on foot - 14:00 · Molino de Palacios (wood-fired lechazo churro (milk-fed lamb) · order it when you book · lunches only) · Molino de Palacios, €€€ - 10 min on foot - 17:00 · Plaza del Coso (the square of wooden balconies, at the foot of the castle) - 10 min on foot - 20:30 · Origen-es, Restaurant of the Hotel AF Pesquera (Esperanza menu €75, €110 with wine pairing · in the hotel itself · booking) · Origen-es, Restaurant of the Hotel AF Pesquera, €€€€ - 10:00 · Vuelta (the next morning, well rested) Peñafiel has no train, and there is no bus between its wineries. So this plan cheats in favour of the wine: you arrive in the morning, leave the car at the hotel and do not move it again until the next day. In between, one of the most serious tastings in the Ribera, the ship-shaped castle and its wine museum, a wood-roasted lamb and a long dinner in the same building where you sleep. ## From vineyard to plate 9:45 · To the hotel. The Hotel AF Pesquera occupies a 1922 flour mill on the Paseo de la Estación, at the foot of the castle. Leave the car and your luggage; the room, when it is ready. 10:00 · Pago de Carraovejas. Five minutes by taxi to the hillside opposite the castle. Landscapes with Soul is two hours on the estate with four wines from different Alma Carraovejas projects and four bites from the kitchen of Ambivium, its restaurant, for €85. It runs Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00, booked on its website or on 983 878 020. If you want more, Grandes Crus de Alma is three hours and seven wines for €135. 12:30 · The castle and the Provincial Wine Museum. Another short taxi ride and you go up the hill. The castle is visited with a guide and the museum on your own: vineyard, winemaking and the history of the denomination, in an hour and a half, for €6.60. From October to March it opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:30 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 18:00, and the last castle visit is forty minutes before closing: arrive no later than one o'clock. 14:00 · Lamb at Molino de Palacios. Walk down to the Duratón. In this old mill the churro lamb is roasted in a wood-fired oven and is ordered when you book: a quarter for every three people. Lunch only, Tuesday to Sunday. 17:00 · The Plaza del Coso. A stroll round the square of wooden balconies, enclosed by more than fifty houses, where the festival bulls are run in August. From below you can see the whole castle. 20:30 · Dinner at Origen-es. The gastronomic restaurant is in the hotel itself. The Esperanza menu costs €75, or €110 with wine pairing, with the wines of the Fernández Rivera family, from Tinto Pesquera and Condado de Haza. From Wednesday to Friday it serves dinner only; at weekends, lunch too. ## The next day You have breakfast, collect the car and set off with a clear head: two hours to Madrid on the N-122 and the A-1, fifty minutes to Valladolid. If you have the morning to spare, the Cistercian monastery of Valbuena is about 20 km away, down the Duero. ## If you want another winery The two wineries in the town itself can be reached on foot from the hotel. Protos, at the foot of the castle, combines its ageing cellar dug under the hill with Richard Rogers's building, and sells its visits in an online calendar; Peñafalcón, a family winery on Calle Pisuerga, does its visit with a tasting for €30, by appointment. They fit the afternoon of the first day well instead of the square. ## Cómo llegar ### By car, then on foot From Madrid, the A-1 to Aranda and the N-122, about two hours; from Valladolid, the N-122, fifty minutes. In Peñafiel, the car stays at the hotel. ### Short taxi rides To Pago de Carraovejas and to the castle, five minutes each. The rest, on foot. ## Consejos ### Order the lamb At Molino de Palacios you ask for it when booking the table. ### Book Carraovejas before the hotel Its places sell out first, especially in autumn. ### Check the castle's hours The last visit is 40 minutes before the midday closing. ## Preguntas frecuentes ### How much does the Pago de Carraovejas tasting cost? Landscapes with Soul, €85 per person, two hours with four wines and four bites. ### Which days can you do this plan? Wednesday to Sunday. ### Do you need a car? To get there, yes: Peñafiel has no train. Once there, on foot and by taxi. ### Where do you eat lamb in Peñafiel? At Molino de Palacios, with the lamb ordered when you book.