This family has an impressive museum dedicated to wine. It takes you from the historical beginnings of wine in the world, over 8,000 years ago. It has dramatic videos of the production of wines. It has a huge collection of the ancient and modern equipment used in the production of wine. The museum is over 40,00 square feet. Here you can see the corkscrew collection of the Vivanco Museum of the Culture of Wine, consisting of close to 3500 pieces that show the evolution and diversity of this apparently simple instrument. We downloaded the tour narrative to our phones and we walked for 90 minutes amazed at the information and we only heard 1/2 of the story. This is a place where anyone who respects and likes wine could spend 3-4 hours seeing all the fascinating items in the collection. Totally recommend, but spend more time. There are guided tours by the staff, but they blow through in less than 90 minutes. read more

Museo Vivanco - A curious storage device for wine. If you can't laugh, you're a moron. - Museums Near Me - Briones, LO

The views are absolutely gorgeous and stunning, and the museum is great for learning about wine, it's history, and how relevant grapes are to this area. Food in the restaurant was very nice, we were served a traditional Basque lunch of bacalao, lamb, chorizo and potato stew... read more

Museo Vivanco is wayy underrated. I believe this place might be the largest wine museum in the world but doesn't get as many visitors as it deserves. Though the displays are in Spanish, with minimal English, they do have an app you can download in the language of your choosing so you can follow along. The museum really does a good job in educating wine history, culture, etc. There are some interactive parts in the museum, including a smelling section where you can take a whiff of different smells that make up the characteristics of wines. There is also a garden outside, not part of Vivanco's own vineyards, where there are many different grape varietals grown for educational purposes. I wouldn't recommend eating them though. Truly a cool place with so much to see and learn. I would say an hour to an hour and half should be sufficient to explore the museum, though I am not accounting for time for the wine tasting which is also offered here as well. Wine tasting here is very fairly priced and it gives you a chance to taste wines of a single grape varietal like mazuelo, and graciano, if you want to see how one specific grape tastes on its own, rather than mixed in a blend. read more

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