Ronda & Wine Tasting Day Trip from Marbella

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Duration8h

GroupUp to 6

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PickupAt your hotel

Ronda's Gorge & Eight Wines: A Day in Spain's Wine Country

You're picked up from your Marbella hotel and driven to Ronda, where you explore the historic town and cross the Puente Nueva on your own. Then you visit two local wineries, walk through vineyards and barrel rooms, taste 6 to 8 wines with a DipWSET-qualified guide, and eat a farm-to-table tapas lunch. The return journey gets you back to the coast by evening.

Step-by-step itinerary

Ronda tour and winery visits

Pick up from Costa Del Sol accommodation
Drive through Sierra de las Nieves National Park
Discover historic town of Ronda at leisure
Visit Ronda Bull Ring
Cross Puente Nueva bridge over Tajo gorge
Tour boutique winery with Feng Shui design
Visit vineyard, winery, and barrel room
Taste 3-4 wines on winery terrace
Enjoy tapas style lunch at winery
Visit second winery vineyards and winery
Learn about wine making and range
Sample 3-4 award winning wines

The Experience

The Puente Nueva hangs above the Tajo gorge like something from a painting—a white stone arch spanning a chasm so deep the town seems to float. You arrive in Ronda after driving through the Sierra de las Nieves, the landscape shifting from coastal flatness to mountain folds, and the first thing you do is walk across that bridge on your own time, no rushing. The town spreads on both sides of the ravine, narrow streets and old stone buildings, and you can wander the Bull Ring (one of Spain's oldest, still used for fights) or just stand where the view drops away. Your guide meets you after, and that's when the wine part begins.

Two wineries, both in the Ronda region, both using hand-harvested grapes and minimal intervention techniques—the kind of small-scale operation you don't find in mass-production valleys. At the first, a boutique place with a Feng Shui design, you'll walk through the vineyard and barrel room, then taste 3 to 4 wines on a terrace overlooking the vines. The second winery shows you their range and how each wine is made, followed by another 3 to 4 tastings of award-winning bottles. That's 6 to 8 wines across the day, paired with local delicacies—and at one of the wineries, a tapas-style lunch sourced farm-to-table. Your guide is DipWSET qualified, which means they know wine properly, not just the sales pitch. The itinerary shifts depending on which wineries have availability that day, so you're not locked into the same two stops every time.

Pickup happens from your accommodation on the Costa del Sol, and you're back by evening. The drive itself is part of it—watching the landscape change, the air getting cooler as you climb. Bottled water is included, and the vehicle is air-conditioned, which matters when you're tasting wine in the afternoon heat and need to stay clear-headed enough to actually taste what you're drinking.

What’s included

Hotel pickup from your Costa del Sol accommodation, air-conditioned transport through Sierra de las Nieves to Ronda, free time to explore the historic town and Puente Nueva, entry and tastings at two local wineries (6 to 8 wines total), a farm-to-table tapas lunch at one winery, bottled water throughout the day, and return transport to your hotel.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePets welcome

Operated by Rootz Wine Tours

Is this one for you?Best for wine enthusiasts who want to taste small-batch, hand-harvested wines with a qualified guide and skip the logistics of renting a car or arranging winery visits themselves—the fixed itinerary and included transport mean you show up and the day unfolds.