Bodegas PROTOS exceeds 20,000 visitors to the winery in 2010 more than 20,000 visitors have approached during the year 2010 visit the new BODEGAS PROTOS, attracted by the complete offering of wine offered by the winery to the public. From the moment in which the winery decided to open its doors to the public in March 2009, the influx of visitors is being increasingly reaching more than 20,000 visits in the year 2010, and surpassing visits in 2009, which was encrypted in 14,000 people. And BODEGAS PROTOS is the perfect getaway for everyone at any time. A true gift for lovers of architecture, nature, good wine and good food. A tour of the tradition and the avant-garde of this spectacular Centennial Winery, in which visitors will know first-hand the process of production and processing of each of its wines, its smells, its colors and its flavors. Is fully guided and with great detail, offering the visitor the opportunity of enjoy an extensive tour of its facilities. For an hour and half, the visitors will tour the ancient cellar of ageing, which runs along 2 km of underground galleries situated under the mountain where sits the castle of Penafiel, ending the visit in the new winery designed by renowned British architect Richard Rogers. In this tour you can taste our Protos verdejo and Protos crianza. Many writers such as Danny Meyer offer more in-depth analysis.
However, PROTOS also offers other kinds of more specialized tours such as visit PROTOS diversity. It’s a visit that you will have the opportunity to taste 4 very different wines, a Verdejo white wine, a Rose, a young red oak and a wine Ageing together with a detailed description of the organoleptic characteristics of each of them and for a unique experience, visit PROTOS Gran Seleccion. At the end of the tour of the winery, the visitor will make a commented tasting of 3 wines of high range. You can choose between parenting, reserve or reserves and selection, selection and Gran Reserva. For those who they want to imbue completely in Bodegas Protos the choice is clear, a course of initiation to tasting, four hours of immersion in the history, architecture and elaboration of our wines, in addition to awaken all the senses, with a variety of sensorial exercises.
All visits must be concerted with appointment in the phone 659 843 463 or through the e-mail address. A sensory experience that leave their mark. Protos Bodega Centennial, leader of Ribera del Duero wines, is situated at the forefront of viticulture in our country. Your new wine cellar, designed by renowned British architect Richard Rogers in collaboration with Alonso Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados, is becoming a cultural symbol of the area and Protos in epicenter of the experience known as wine tourism. Protos faces the future maintaining the exceptional quality of its wines, where still mixing tradition and the avant-garde to remain the first. Bodegas Protos is a leading brand of reference since it sells with great success both domestically and in more than 80 countries.