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Perelada opens its new winery, on the outskirts of Peralada, with guided visits that end with a tasting of three wines. The most complete starts at the Castle Museum, with the library, the glass and the wine museum of the former Carme convent, and ends at the winery. Three hours to understand why the Empordà is wine country.
Who offers it
Independent companies: you book with them, on their terms. Prices are as they publish them and may change.
Step by step
Guided visit to the library, the glass collection and the wine museum, in the Carme convent.
Group visit to the new RCR Arquitectes winery, at Paratge la Granja.
Three Perelada wines. In all, about three hours.
Peralada is a wine village, and this is the way to see it from the inside without leaving the municipality.
Perelada has been making wine in Peralada for more than six centuries. Its new winery, designed by RCR Arquitectes, the 2017 Pritzker Prize winners, was the first in Europe with LEED Gold sustainability certification. The visit shows what lies behind its wines, from architecture to sustainability, and ends with a tasting of three of the house wines.
The long version begins in the village, in the former Carme convent, now the Castle Museum. There you find the library, with nearly 80,000 volumes and more than a thousand editions of Don Quixote, one of the largest glass collections in the world and the wine museum, set up in the 1960s in the cellar where Peralada's wines were once made. Then you continue to the winery for the tasting.
For adults with an interest in wine, architecture or history. Under-12s go free and 12 to 17 pay a reduced price, but the visit is long and technical: with small children, the short visit is better. Private tastings and some estate experiences are for adults only.
The Castle Museum is on plaça del Carme, in the old part of Peralada. The winery is at Paratge la Granja, on the outskirts. You need a car to get from one to the other or to arrive from Figueres, ten minutes away.
It can be visited all year, Tuesday to Sunday, and it is cheaper on weekdays. The premium vineyard visit only runs from February to September. In July and August you can combine the visit with an evening of the Festival.
The winery visit with a tasting of three wines costs €26 from Tuesday to Thursday and €29 from Friday to Sunday; €10 or €12 for ages 12 to 17. The combined visit with the Castle Museum, €35 or €38, and for ages 12 to 17 €17 or €19. The premium vineyard and winery visit, with a welcome glass in the vineyard, three top-range wines and a small plate of cheeses and cured meats, €46. Groups are limited to 15 people.
Who it's for
You are interested in wine or architecture, you want to see the castle museum with a guide and you do not mind a three-hour visit.
You are with small children who cannot manage three hours, or you are driving and do not want to taste.
What to bring
Map
What you have around the starting point.
More to do
Itineraries
Tips
Tuesday to Thursday is three euros cheaper.
There are visits in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.
At the winery's Wine Bar Celler 1923 you can eat traditional dishes paired with the wines.
Questions
€26 from Tuesday to Thursday and €29 from Friday to Sunday, with a tasting of three wines. Under-12s, free.
An hour and a half for the winery; three hours for the one combined with the Castle Museum.
Yes, with the combined Perelada visit, which includes the library, the glass collection and the wine museum.
Yes. They go free up to age 12 and have a reduced rate from 12 to 17.
No: the visits have rates for Tuesday to Thursday and for Friday to Sunday.
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