Cenicero: Wine, Ebro Landscape and Culture

Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres offers bookable winery tours at its location in Cenicero.

Wine and Craftsmanship

Bodegas Tritium combines a guided winery tour with a tasting of four wines, classic Rioja snacks and an olive oil tasting. The restored winery dates back to the 15th century. Bodegas Tritium also offers the activity “Crea tu propio vino”: visitors learn how to make their own wine and apply basic wine-tasting techniques.

At Bodegas Valentín Pascual, wine is made in a cave on Plaza de España in Cenicero; the process includes carbonic maceration wine, produced through traditional grape treading. The company continues to practise the traditional barefoot treading of grapes from its own vineyards, ferments them in a stone lagar and uses a 15th-century cave in Cenicero for wine production. Valentín Pascual and his son José María Pascual conduct the winery tours themselves.

Another specific wine-growing site is Cenicero Viticola’s own vineyard, Finca Cienvacas. Its vines are 100 % Tempranillo and more than 30 years old.

Culture and History

Bodegas Riojanas, S.A. was founded in Cenicero in 1890 by two families. Today, the experience there includes a sensory cellar visit with the Sala de Sensaciones del Vino and the audiovisual feature “Los sonidos del vino”. It also includes a tasting of three wines and Iberian cured meats.

The various offerings place different emphases: they range from guided cellar visits and tastings to producing your own wine and traditional craft techniques. A visit to Tonelería Gangutia shows the toasting of barrels, a tool museum and the staff making the barrels.

Historic spaces can also be found outside the wine cellars. The parish church of San Martín in Cenicero was completed in the mid-16th century. It has a single-nave layout, chapels between the buttresses, a high choir and a tower. Casa de Cultura “Las Monjas” is a palace built in Cenicero in the 18th century.

Landscape along the Ebro

The Camino Natural del Ebro follows the floodplains of the Najerilla and Ebro rivers to Cenicero. Stage 14.1 ends at the entrance to the town beside a park that serves as a viewpoint.

From the viewpoint at the endpoint of the route near Cenicero, you can see the Ebro Valley’s large meanders, riparian forests and islands. Vineyards and cultivated areas with irrigated and dry farming are also visible. The different landscapes and the various wine experiences can be considered separately when you organise the focus of your days in Cenicero.

First Impressions on Site

The Cenicero tourist information office features exposed stone walls, wine-related decoration and historic photographs of the town of Cenicero and its inhabitants.

Accommodation and Connection to the Town

When comparing holiday apartments in Cenicero, you can review the travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions on the respective offer pages. For comparison, you can view these three details side by side.

Other destinations for your travel planning include Muro De Aguas, El Horcajo, Treviana, Torremontalbo, Huércanos, Castañares De Rioja, Alfaro and Villarroya.

To the main travel overview: La Rioja.