Madrid La Latina: Wine Tasting & Tapas with Spanish Sommelier

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Four Bars, One Sommelier's Private Collection, and Why La Latina Tastes Different at Night

You move through four of La Latina's best bars with a Spanish sommelier, tasting wines from his private collection paired with Iberian tenderloin, codfish, olives, and tostas. The tour ends with Pedro Ximenez poured over ice cream. Groups stay at eight, the pace is evening-slow, and you're eating and drinking at the level locals do, not at the tourist version. Book if you want the real thing and don't mind that the neighborhood's cobblestones and stairs are part of what makes it worth seeing.

Step-by-step itinerary

Tapas and wine tasting in La Latina

Explore La Latina neighborhood
Sip vermouth with Chupadedos olives
Drink wine and taste fried codfish
Taste Albariño wine with tostas
Walk cobblestone streets to top restaurant
Taste 3 Michelin Star Iberico Tenderloin
Uncork red wines from private cellar
Taste Pedro Ximenez with vanilla ice cream

The Experience

You want to taste real Madrid wine, not the version tourists usually get — and you're curious enough to follow someone who actually knows where to find it. That's the feeling that pulls you into La Latina on this tour, where a member of the Spanish Wine Tasting Association leads groups of eight through the neighborhood's oldest bars, the ones with 12th-century wall fragments still visible outside. The tour starts with vermouth on tap paired with Chupadedos olives (verdial variety, seasoned with pepper, garlic, oregano), and from there it moves through four carefully chosen stops, each one revealing something different about how Madrid drinks and eats.

The second bar serves Faroe Islands codfish fried in olive oil — the way they drank wine in the 19th century. Then you're standing in one of the city's most beautiful wine bars tasting Altos de Torona Albariño, a 2022 International Wine Challenge winner, paired with tostas (a specific type of tapas that most visitors never learn the name of). By the time you reach the fourth bar, you've walked through narrow cobblestone streets deep enough into Old Madrid that the neighborhood stops feeling like a tourist route. This is where you sit down to Iberian tenderloin — acorn-fed, marinated by the legendary butcher Cesareo Gomez — and where the sommelier uncorks wines from his own cellar: Matas Altas, Dominio de Loalva 2018, the kind of bottles you won't find on any other Madrid tour. The evening closes with Pedro Ximenez, a Spanish dessert wine poured over vanilla and macadamia ice cream, which transforms it into something that tastes like rum and raisins.

Groups stay under eight people, which means you're not herding through these bars like a standard tour group — you move quietly enough that locals barely notice. The sommelier has 25 years of professional tasting behind him, so the wines aren't random picks; they're chosen to show you something. If you're vegetarian, he can work with artichoke risotto instead of the meat courses. The tour runs in the evening, which is when La Latina actually comes alive, and it's designed for people who want to drink and eat seriously, not just check boxes. Minimum age is 21, and the neighborhood has stairs and slopes — one bar is standing-only — so it's not built for mobility challenges, but if you can walk cobblestones and climb a few steps, you're fine.

What’s included

Entry to four bars in La Latina with wine tastings at each stop, including vermouth, white wine, red wines from the sommelier's personal cellar, and Pedro Ximenez dessert wine.
Food pairings include Chupadedos olives, Faroe Islands codfish, tostas, Galician chipirones, cardo mushrooms, Manchego cheese, acorn-fed Iberian tenderloin marinated by Cesareo Gomez, and vanilla ice cream with Pedro Ximenez poured on top.
The tour is led by a Spanish Wine Association member with 25 years of tasting experience, and groups are kept to eight people maximum.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditions

Operated by Walks of Spain

Is this one for you?Right for wine and food lovers who want to taste at the level locals do and don't mind navigating cobblestones and stairs to get there — the sommelier's private collection and the evening timing in La Latina are what make this different from the standard Madrid food tour.