Cheese Trips · CHEESE FARM VISITS IN SPAIN
Every trip has one free day too few. These 7 cheese farm visits in Spain justify the slot, priced and timed so you can decide in minutes and get back to the fun part.
Spend 90 minutes at Subaida farm in central Menorca, touring the cowshed and milking room, bottle-feeding calves, learning how Mahón-Menorca cheese is made, and tasting four cheeses, sobrasada, carn i xulla, carquinyols, bread, wine, and water. The live tour is in Spanish.
“Belle visite d’une ferme mettant en valeur le patrimoine minorquin”
At Quesería Montesdeoca, you meet local goats, visit the working cheese factory, and learn how fresh, smoked, semicured, and aged cheeses are made. A guide leads this one-hour, wheelchair-accessible visit in English, Spanish, Bulgarian, or Serbo-Croatian, ending with three cheese samples.
At La Antigua de Fuentesaúco, guides Elena or Estefanía take you through an artisan raw sheep milk cheese factory. See milk collection, production, maturation, and storage, then taste two varieties. The 1-hour-45-minute visit starts at 11 a.m. and includes protective clothing and snacks.
“A very nice visit led by Estefanía, very professional, pleasant and passionate, who makes herself very available. You can see the entire cheese-making chain of the site, see the work done and finish the visit with a very gourmet tasting. A very nice discovery for all those who like to travel differently and make beautiful encounters.Auto-translated”
Spend seven hours with a small group of up to 15 people visiting a family cheese factory and Vera de Estenas Winery. Make goat cheese, tour natural cheese caves, taste eight cheeses with unlimited white wine, then sample three local wines with sausages.
“Guides were super friendly and tell a lot of fascinating facts about how wine was being produced. Definitely will recommend it to my friends”
At Quesería Montesdeoca near Adeje, you’ll see goats being fed and milked, watch artisanal cheese made by hand, and taste a generous range of cheeses with local jams, condiments, and wine. Alberto and Adriana are among the hosts associated with this warm, family-run visit.
“Really lovely and hard working family farm. Thorough and interesting tour,brilliant and friendly tour guide /owner , finished tour off with lovely cheese tasting ! Brilliant and fairly priced products in the shop. If you want to experience local life at Tenerife it is a must! We loved It ,and we would come back again if we visit Tenerife .”
Travel from Bilbao in a leather-seated van with a group of up to seven. Visit San Sebastian with a local guide, then tour a family farm making Idiazabal cheese. Meet sheep, watch the cheesemaking process, and finish with cheese, cider, or wine in a Basque txoko.
“Irene is a great guide! Very knowledgeable. Cheese tour was fun & delicious. San Sebastian pintxos we’re incredible! We will recommend her to all of our friends!”
Spend about seven hours in Utiel-Requena with Valencia & Go, making goat cheese at a family factory in Los Pedrones before visiting Vera de Estenas Winery. Expect vineyard views, cave-aged cheeses, eight cheese samples, three wines, local cold cuts, and air-conditioned transport.
“If you like STRONG cheeses and/or goat cheeses you'll love the cheese tasting, if not it may be a bit of a struggle (they do have multiple pallet cleansers to help!). I love a strong parmesan or blue cheese, but one of the cheeses was on par wiRead more”
Pick a dairy, a cellar, a boat or a bench with a bowl of curd on it.
