In Spain more and more bodegas have rooms: from a five-star hotel next to the cellar to an old masia among the vines. Below are twelve addresses, region by region.
Catalonia: Empordà and Costa Brava
Castell de Peralada, seven kilometres from Figueres, has a fourteenth-century castle, a new winery and the Hotel Peralada Wine Spa & Golf on one estate. The Costa Brava is less than an hour away.
The underground cellar of Brugarol lies on the Finca Bell-Lloc estate near Palamós. On the estate you can rent Chalet Bell-Lloc, with four bedrooms, by the vineyard.
Holiday home · Chalet Bell-Lloc with four bedrooms by the vineyard
Mas Roig is a restaurant and hotel in a masia from 1620, within walking distance of medieval Pals, looking out over the Empordà. The cellar has more than 140 wines.
Catalonia: Penedès and Bages
The Bolet family has made wine in Castellví de la Marca for more than seven generations. Next to the cellar of Caves Bolet is the modernist family house from 1911, now a hotel with five rooms.
Hotel · Bolet Casa Modernista: the 1911 family house, now a hotel with five rooms
Heretat Baltà de Cela in Guardiola de Font-rubí has made wine since 1889, with Xarel·lo in the leading role. The farmhouse among the vineyards can be rented as a whole.
Holiday home · Farmhouse among the vineyards, rented as a whole
Near Manresa, looking out on Montserrat, is the castle of Oller del Mas. The organic wines come only from the estate's own grapes, and you sleep in cabins among the trees.
More about the Penedès is in our article Cava and the Penedès.
Rioja and Ribera del Duero
Marqués de Riscal in Elciego, the oldest bodega in the area, asked Frank Gehry for a new building: a wavy roof of titanium in pink, gold and silver. The hotel is in that building.
Abadía Retuerta is a twelfth-century abbey on the Duero, between Valladolid and Peñafiel. The hotel LeDomaine has 27 rooms and 3 suites in the old monastery.
Hotel · Five-star hotel LeDomaine in the abbey, with 27 rooms and 3 suites
At Arzuaga in Quintanilla de Onésimo, the bodega, hotel, restaurant and spa lie together among 65 hectares of vineyards.
Hotel · Hotel & Spa Arzuaga among the vineyards, with a wine spa
Mallorca
Can Gelat is an organic estate of thirty hectares near Moscari, at the foot of the Tramuntana mountains, owned by a Dutch family. Two villas with private pools are on the estate.
In the artists' village of Deià, Miró is the restaurant of Belmond La Residencia, with original works by Joan Miró on the walls.
Andalusia
In Antequera, near Málaga, Charo Carmona brings old Málaga recipes back to life at Arte de Cozina, in a seventeenth-century building. There are simple rooms, and the wine list has many wines from Málaga and the Sierras de Málaga.
