Barcelona’s Own Vineyard — Can Calopa

Train out of the city, a guided walk through the Collserola forest, and the only working vineyard inside Barcelona at the end of it.

Most people never learn that Barcelona grows its own wine. Can Calopa de Dalt is a masia up in the Collserola hills, inside the city boundary, where the L’Olivera cooperative farms the vines and makes the wine — a social enterprise as much as a winery. You meet your guide at Plaça Catalunya station. Your guide handles the train fare — it is already included in what you paid, so there is no ticket machine to work out and nothing to buy on the day. The train out to La Floresta takes around forty minutes. From La Floresta your guide leads you on foot through the forest to the wine farm: about an hour and a half of walking, at a pace set by the group rather than the clock. This is the part of the day nobody expects and most people end up talking about afterwards. At the farm one of L’Olivera’s own specialist guides takes over for the wine tour itself — they grow it, so they are the ones who should tell you about it. Your guide stays with you to help translate and fill in the gaps, and if you would like them to stay for the whole experience, that can be arranged with them on the day. Uneven ground, a proper forest walk and very little shade at the top — wear shoes you can walk in, and bring a hat and water.