Traditional Cider House Tour | Calonge, San Sebastián

Discover the art of cider-making on a guided tour of a traditional Basque cider house. Learn about the history of Basque cider, explore the production area, and taste cider directly from the barrel.
Discover Family Cider-Making at Calonge
Calonge is a family-run sagardotegia with nearly 90 years of history, now carried on by the fourth generation. Since around 1940, the family has continued making natural Basque cider while preserving traditional methods and gradually introducing modern equipment to improve quality and consistency.

During the visit, you can explore the production area, where old and new techniques stand side by side. The cider house still keeps its historic apple press, while today’s production uses a newer press and bottling system. Inside the cellar, you’ll find ten 10,000-liter barrels and several 5,000-liter tanks. The old wooden barrels have been lined with stainless steel, making them easier to clean and allowing better temperature and quality control. Calonge also reuses bottles returned from restaurants and customers, washing them with a large bottle-cleaning machine before refilling.

Calonge produces around 80,000 liters of cider each year, mainly with a small team of three people. Instead of using apples from its own orchards, the cider house works with growers from Igeldo, Usurbil, Galicia, France, and other regions, blending apples with different levels of acidity, body, sweetness, and bitterness to create balance.

Their focus is simple: one natural cider, carefully crafted. Each barrel develops its own character, so before bottling, the team tastes and analyzes the cider to decide the right blend and timing.

لضمان التوفر، احجز في أقرب وقت ممكن. الحجز المبكر يستحق النظر خاصة إذا كنت تخطط للرحلة خلال موسم الذروة مثل العطلات العامة أو عطلات نهاية الأسبوع.

يمكنك إلغاء هذه الرحلة بدون تكلفة حتى 24 ساعات قبل بدء الرحلة. إذا قمت بالإلغاء بعد 24 ساعات أو لم تحضر في الرحلة، فسيتم تحصيل السعر الكامل للنشاط. التأخر في الاستلام أو المغادرة سيعتبر كعدم حضور.