Kevin McPadden
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I can't speak for the hotel, but we came for a wine tasting here and we left very disappointed.
The price was approx. £60 ($80) for the two of us and was advertised as a 45 min tasting.
We arrived to a construction site. I understand that renovations need to happen, but they had made no effort to make safe walkways and we had clamber over dirt piles to get to the restaurant.
When we got inside we had to interrupt the staff chatting to say that we were there. A woman asked us if we wanted the tasting in Spanish or English and I replied in Spanish that while I speak Spanish my wife does not, that I would be happy to translate but it would be better if it could be in English. The server very visibly rolled her eyes at us. We were then introduced to Marco who spoke flawless English so I'm confused what the issue was? If you have a moral issue with not all the guests speaking Spanish, then maybe you shouldn't work somewhere that prices out the locals?
Anyway, the tasting was really poor in quality. The wine itself was fine, we both enjoyed the tempranillo, but the three thimbles of wine were poured within 10 minutes and we were left sitting on our own. No explanation about the winery or history only this is a X grape and its won X industry award.
Marco came back to ask for a tip which we declined. This was an expensive poor quality experience made worse by the fact that its out in the sticks so we had to hire a driver to bring us out to it.
Later that afternoon we went to Cuna de Tierra which for more or less the same price did 4 wines, they spaces out the wines and explained their history with tasting notes and also provided nibbles, homemade bread and olive oil made at the winery. The experience was just a class above We felt looked after as opposed to a walking $ symbol at Tres raices.