Wednesday wine tasting at La Fisna, Lavapiés

On Wednesdays, La Fisna closes off its private room for tastings: the team of sommeliers opens five bottles for a group of six to eight people in the Sala de Sed, a private room with a table and low chairs surrounded by bottles, in a former tavern in Lavapiés. You choose the approach: an introductory tasting to learn to look, smell and taste, a themed one or a comparison between regions or grapes. Afterwards you can stay for dinner at the bar.

Five bottles and you set the theme

The session lasts an hour and three quarters and starts between 17:30 and 18:30. The introductory one costs €29 per person; the website does not publish the price of the themed and comparison ones, which you ask for when you request it. The house works mostly with small wineries and minimal-intervention wines, imports French wine with Burgundy as a speciality and has more and more Spanish wine, so a comparison between a local region and one from abroad is easy to set up. It is not a tasting with individual places: you need to gather the group.

Request it by email and find Calle del Amparo

Write to [email protected] with the day, the start time, how many of you there are, the type of tasting and whether you will stay for dinner; they reply within 24 to 48 hours. You can also call 915 395 615. The venue is at Calle del Amparo, 91. The nearest metro is Lavapiés, on line 3, two minutes away; Embajadores is also close. For a full afternoon, start with the tasting and leave the table booked for dinner.