BASQUE CHEESE and TXAKOLI WINE - Private Gastronomic Adventure

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8 hours
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Number of Guests
2 - 8 guests
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English, Spanish
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Discover Basque tradition with local cheeses and Txakoli wine. Explore stunning landscapes while indulging in a private culinary journey steeped in history. A taste of Basque passion awaits.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

We Basques maintain a very strong bond with our surroundings and, as children, many of us develop a very special connection with the sea or the mountains. Throughout the day, we’ll explain the reasons for this idyll and how it relates to the other great Basque passion: product-based cuisine.

What You Get

All transportation costs (petrol, parking and toll)
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Private group
Meals, drinks and tickets that are not listed above
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Good To Know

  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessibility is extra paid - contact for details
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible

What You’ll Experience

1

Aia

We’ll leave the ‘big city’and travel to rural Gipuzkoa to learn the secrets of Idiazabal cheese production in a traditional farmhouse. A kilo of this cheese usually goes for around 20 euros, although a competition is held every year to select the best cheese of the season, sometimes reaching up to 14,000 euros per ½ kilo! We’ll do a tasting, and you’ll hear the secrets of Basque cheeses. You’ll taste traditional cheeses, all made with unpasteurized sheep's milk. This is the Real Thing, the Real Cheese.
1 hour 30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
2

Gaintza Txakolina

There’s a Spanish expression that roughly translates as, ‘With bread and wine you walk the road’. We’ve already eaten the bread and cheese. We’ll find the wine on the coast, in the hills overlooking the Cantabrian Sea, the ideal place for growing the grapes from which txakoli is born - a typical Basque white wine with a slight acidity, ideal to pair with fish. We’ll visit a small sustainable winery that uses traditional methods and grapes called Hondarrabi Zuri and Hondarrabi Beltza. Thus you’ll learn the intricacies and power of txakoli.
1 hour 30 minutesAdmission Ticket Included
3

Basque Country

All this will take place near Getaria, the coastal town through which we’ll take a short walk before eating. Getaria is not only the home of a mountain with a mouse-shaped profile, but it’s the hometown of two of the most well-known Basques: Juan Sebastián Elcano (the first to go around the world) and Cristóbal Balenciaga (the international designer known as the Prince of Fashion). More: our coast is famous for its charcoal-grilled fish, omnipresent in the streets closest to the port…so it makes sense to have lunch here. Do you need a more compelling reason?
1 hour 30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Monte Igueldo (Pass By)

It’s a dream road for two reasons: you can take a good nap after lunch and dream of sheep (latxas, of course), but we don’t recommend it. The road back to San Sebastián is one of the most beautiful on the Basque Coast. It would be a pity to miss these winding roads (splashed by waves during heavy storms), or the cows grazing alongside quiet farmhouses on Mount Igeldo. You've been warned.

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Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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A must do!!
July 08, 2025
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This past week with Ikusnahi Tours was absolutely incredible! From start to finish our tour guide Ania provided our group such a unique, unforgettable, and logistically fantastic experience! The de...read more

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Wonderful day trip around Getaria
June 16, 2025
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It’s not easy to plan a trip for a multigenerational group of 7, and this is why we were appreciative of Ikushani, tour guide extraordinaire - Olatz! She provided us with a memorable day tour of s...read more

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Larry from Texas
May 09, 2024
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The tour was very good and we even got to make our own cheese . The wine was exceptional and something we would not have experienced by ourselves.

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Simply the Best
March 09, 2024
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Incredible days with an incredible guide. Some of the best days of any trip I’ve ever taken. You’d be a fool to hire anyone else in Basque Country!

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A day of learning and dining with Markel
September 16, 2023
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Markel was an amazing tour guide. We took the wine and cheese tour with him and had a wonderful day. As he drove a us around the Basque countryside he regaled us with tales of local heroes and shar...read more

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