Savour Córdoba through its flavours: wine tastings, tapas tours and culinary discoveries.
Córdoba's food culture is inseparable from its geography, history and agricultural heritage. The province produces some of Spain's finest raw materials: Priego de Córdoba and Baena extra-virgin olive oils (both DOP-certified), Montilla-Moriles fino and amontillado wines, Iberian pigs from the Sierra Morena raised on acorns, and vegetables from the fertile Guadalquivir valley. Gastronomic activities — wine tastings, cooking workshops, tapas tours and market visits — provide structured access to these ingredients and to the people who produce them. A Montilla-Moriles wine tasting is the essential liquid education: fino from Montilla achieves its characteristic alcohol naturally (without added spirit) because the local Pedro Ximénez grape reaches sufficient concentration in the province's extreme heat. Cooking workshops focus on the canon of Córdoban cooking: salmorejo, berenjenas con miel, rabo de toro and the desserts of Moorish origin — mazapán, alfajores and the deep-fried pestinos — that reveal the unbroken thread of Al-Andalus culinary influence in the modern kitchen.
Hands-on cooking class in Córdoba: learn to make authentic salmorejo and paella with a local chef. Small groups of 10 maximum, English spoken. From €23.
3-hour small-group food tour tasting salmorejo, flamenquín and Montilla-Moriles wines at authentic tabernas. Local expert guide. Book ahead. From €60.
Visit Córdoba's legendary bodegas and taste fino, amontillado and 100-point Pedro Ximénez. Guided tour of century-old cellars, 40 km from the city. From €8.
Expert-led olive oil tastings at award-winning DOP mills near Córdoba. Taste oils from Baena and Priego de Córdoba — Spain's finest EVOO regions. From €15.
Intimate 90-minute wine tasting in central Córdoba. Taste four Montilla-Moriles wines — Fino, Amontillado, Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez — with tapas. From €24.