Private travel · Spain
Spain is where Amble beganCatalonia, the Basque Country, Rioja and Madrid — privately, on your dates.
- 4regions
- 1–12guests, your group only
- 1 day – 3 weeks
- 100%privately hosted
Private travel in Spain
The country Amble was built in
Amble started in Spain. Not with a route or a product, but with a handful of people who let us into their cellars, their kitchens and their families — and who kept saying yes, year after year, because of how the guests we brought behaved once they were through the door.
Everything Amble does elsewhere is built on what those relationships taught us. Spain is where we learned that the good stuff is rarely listed, that a winemaker will give you an afternoon they would never give a coach party, and that the difference between a nice trip and an unforgettable one is almost always a person.
It is still the country we know most completely: the longest relationships, the deepest bench of Local Legends, and the widest range of what we can open — from a Priorat grower's terraces to a market stall in Madrid where the owner has known us for years.
Explore Spain through relationships, not bookings.
Where we travel in Spain
Four regions, each entered through the people inside it
Spend a whole journey in one, or move between them. Madrid either side of a wine region is the shape many guests settle on, and Catalonia and the Basque Country pair naturally over a week.
Catalonia
Penedès, Priorat and the coast — the region we know best
Where Amble started, and still the region with the most doors. Penedès for the growers working in clay and reviving old varieties, Priorat for slate terraces so steep they are worked by hand, Sitges for a coastline that cooks what it catches that morning. Amphorae makers, fifth-generation vermouth distillers, oyster farmers, castellers. Barcelona sits an hour away when you want it.
Barcelona · Penedès · Priorat · Sitges
The Basque Country
The most concentrated food culture in Europe, and the wines beside it
Nowhere eats like this. Pintxos bars where each counter has one thing worth crossing the city for, cider houses where you drink straight from the barrel and the steak arrives whole, txakoli poured from height on the coast at Getaria. Rioja Alavesa's bodegas sit just over the hills, which is why we usually build the two together.
San Sebastián · Getaria · Rioja Alavesa · Bilbao
La Rioja & Ribera del Duero
Tempranillo, two ways, and the cellars underneath the towns
Spain's classic wine country, and more varied than its reputation suggests. In Haro, bodegas that have been in the same families for a century and a half sit within a few streets of each other. In Ribera del Duero, altitude and cold nights make something denser and more austere. Underneath both, the calados — old cellars cut into the rock beneath the towns, where a good deal of the tasting happens.
Haro · Logroño · Rioja Alta · Ribera del Duero
Madrid
Wine bars, a cooking class, and wineries an hour from the city
Madrid drinks better than almost anywhere in Spain. We build tastings in the wine bars that take it most seriously, and pair them with a cooking class that sends you home able to make what you have been eating all week. Go an hour out of the city and there are working wineries and estates most visitors never hear about — enough for a full day in the vineyards and back for dinner.
Madrid · Comunidad de Madrid
Where we have people
We only go where we know the people
That keeps the list short, and it keeps the access real.
- Barcelona
- Penedès
- Vilafranca del Penedès
- Priorat
- Sitges
- San Sebastián
- Getaria
- Bilbao
- Rioja Alavesa
- Haro
- Logroño
- Ribera del Duero
- Madrid
Access, introductions and relationships
You travel with someone already inside the region
You are accompanied by a wine specialist who moves with you through cellars, vineyards and tables, connecting what you experience as it happens.
At certain moments others join — a producer, a maker, a chef — adding depth from within their own work. That might take place inside production, through hands-on craft, or in the wider context of the region itself.
One person holds the thread throughout, so each part connects without interruption. Nobody is working from a script, and there is no group to keep pace with — it is the difference between being shown a place and being taken into it.
What that makes possible
Four things you couldn't arrange yourself
Doors with no tasting room
A great deal of the best wine in Spain is made at estates that never receive visitors. The visit happens because of who asks, not because a slot was free.
Time with the person who made it
Poured by the family who farmed it, in their own cellar or at their own table, at the pace of a conversation rather than a tour.
Meals arranged, not booked
A long lunch at a bodega, a private kitchen in Madrid, a cider house table, a fisherman cooking what he landed that morning. Menu and wines chosen for your group.
One region, or all four
A single day with a sommelier in Penedès, or a fortnight across Spain with private transport between regions and no fixed schedule once you are there.
How it feels
Depth rather than volume
- Fewer visits, with more time in each place
- Conversations that unfold naturally
- Experiences shaped by presence rather than schedules
- A pace that allows for spontaneity and discovery
Spain rewards patience, trust and connection. This is a more personal, less transactional way of travelling — and it suits people who value depth and detail over a full itinerary.
What to expect on investment
From $750 per person, per dayGuide price for the Amble experience · accommodation costed separately
Every private journey is priced according to your group size, the length of the trip and the experiences we design together. As a guide, plan from $750 per person per day — covering your Local Legend host, private transport, tastings and a hosted lunch. Smaller groups and more ambitious journeys sit above that.
Accommodation is costed separately and tailored to your preferences, from estate hotels in the Penedès vineyards to town houses in San Sebastián and city hotels in Madrid. You will have a full, transparent proposal before you commit to anything.
Amble Journeys Ltd is a member of Protected Trust Services, member no. 5978. Every payment you make is held in a trust account and financially protected until your trip is complete.
How it comes together
From first conversation to arrival
Start with a conversation
Tell us how you want to travel — the pace, the regions, and the moments that matter most. Share a few details and we will set up a call.
We design your journey
An outline itinerary built around access, flow and the people who will bring it to life. A $500 planning fee, applied in full to your trip cost, begins detailed planning.
We refine the details
We adjust, add and shape until it feels exactly right. Once you are happy, a 50% deposit secures your booking.
You arrive
Your final balance is due 90 days before departure. From there we handle everything, so you can simply arrive and experience it.
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Begin your Spanish journey
We work with a limited number of clients each season, designing journeys shaped around individual interests, timing and access. Tell us a little about how you would like to travel using the form below, and we will come back to you to arrange a call.
Or write to us directly: customerservice@amblejourneys.com
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