Barcelona: Torres Winery Tour with Wine Tasting & Tapas

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Duration5h

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Barcelona to Penedès: A Morning at Torres Winery with Four Wines & Farm Lunch

You travel from central Barcelona to the Penedès wine region with a specialist guide, tour the architecturally striking Waltraud winery and its vineyards, taste four wines paired with a multi-course meal made from estate ingredients, and have time to browse the shop before returning to the city. Transportation, guide, tastings, and lunch are all included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Torres Winery tour and tasting

Depart from Julià Travel office
Travel 50 minutes to Penedès region
Tour vineyards and Waltraud winery
Learn about winemaking and sustainability
Taste local meals and four wines
Return to Barcelona Estació del Nord

The Experience

The guide, Marc, was already waiting outside the Estació del Nord office when we arrived, coffee in hand, checking his phone for traffic. He'd done this route maybe a hundred times, and it showed — not in any slick way, but in how he knew exactly which questions people asked on the minibus ride out. Fifty minutes to Penedès, he said, and he meant it. The drive itself is part of the tour; he talked about the landscape shifting from city sprawl to vineyard rows, about why this corner of Catalonia produces what it does, about the Torres family's shift toward regenerative viticulture a few years back. Nobody felt like they were being lectured. It was more like riding with someone who actually cares about where he's taking you.

The Waltraud winery building hits you first — all clean lines and glass, designed to sit in the landscape rather than dominate it. The tour moves through the vineyards themselves, then into the working spaces where you see the actual process, not a video of it. The guide explained their work recovering old Catalan grape varieties and how the soil restoration piece isn't just marketing; it's what they're actually measuring and adjusting. After that, you're seated for the tasting and food pairing. Four wines — a vermouth to start, then white, red, and sparkling — each one paired with something made right there: bread with tomato and olive oil from their own trees, a vegetable cream from the organic garden, coca with escalivada and anchovies, Spanish tortilla, local sheep cheese, Catalan chicken, and mató with honey from Mas La Plana for dessert. It's not a rushed thing. You're eating slowly, tasting slowly, and the sommelier is there to explain what's in the glass without making it feel like a test.

Before heading back to Barcelona, there's time to wander the winery shop if you want — most people do, even if they're just looking. The return journey follows the same route, and you're back at Estació del Nord by early evening. The whole day is structured but never feels hurried, which is harder to pull off than it sounds when you're moving thirty people through a working winery and a sit-down meal.

What’s included

Hotel or office pickup is not mentioned in this tour — you meet at Julià Travel's office at Estació del Nord in Barcelona.
Transportation on a premium minibus to and from the Penedès region is included, along with a specialist enotourism guide.
The winery tour covers the vineyards and the Waltraud building.
Wine tasting includes four selected wines paired with a multi-course meal made from estate ingredients: bread with tomato and olive oil, vegetable cream from the organic garden, coca with escalivada and anchovies, Spanish tortilla de patata, local sheep cheese, Catalan-style chicken, and mató dessert with honey.
Free time to explore the winery shop is also part of the experience.

Good to know

Easy physical levelNot for pregnant travelersInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Julia Travel

Is this one for you?A good fit if you want to understand a serious Catalan winery without arranging your own transport from Barcelona — the minibus, guide, and full meal are handled. Plan for a full day out, roughly eight hours from office to office, which is what lets you move unhurried through the vineyard and sit down properly for lunch.