Montserrat and Cava Day Trip from Barcelona

Montserrat and cava fit in one day from Barcelona, and the tour that does both with the cava in its title is In Out Barcelona Tours’ Montserrat & Cava Wineries Day Trip from Barcelona w/ Pickup: hotel pickup, Montserrat Monastery and a walk in the park, then a family-run cava cellar, from US$105 an adult for two or more (checked November 2026). Read one line before you book: on that small-group option, the cava cellar ticket and tasting, about €24.50, are paid separately.

The Montserrat and cava day, step by step

The day is 10 hours. A private air-conditioned minivan collects you from your Barcelona hotel between 8:00 and 9:00 AM; it does not pick up at the cruise terminal or the airport. At Montserrat there is a walking tour in the park and a guided visit to the monastery. Then a scenic drive through the Penedès to Vins El Cep, a 15th-century family-run cava and wine cellar, for a guided visit and a tasting of three cavas with tapas, about two hours. The group is limited to 8 guests.

The calendar above sells two options. The small-group tour in English cost US$210.72 for two adults, US$105.36 each, on 16 January 2027, and one adult on their own showed as unavailable. On it, the cellar ticket and cava tasting are not in the price. The private tour cost US$654.32 for two (US$327.16 each) or US$626.60 for one, and includes the cava cellar visit and tasting.

Three things from its reviews: in September 2025 one group did the cava tasting in the morning and Montserrat after it, the reverse of the order described; in October 2026 a three-star guest found Montserrat lovely but the winery not what they had hoped; and in November 2024 a guest expecting hotel pickup was asked to walk to a parking garage.

The same operator also sells a private Montserrat and cava winery tour with hotel pick-up on Viator, 10 hours, with the cellar entrance and a tasting of three wines and cavas included.

Other ways to pair Montserrat with a winery

Devour Barcelona Food Tours' Montserrat and cava winery day, sold on Viator, is 7 hours: Montserrat with a Basilica ticket, then a 4x4 vineyard tour and a winery visit with a cava and wine tasting and a farm-to-table lunch in the vineyard, in a group of 15 or fewer. Transport there and back is included, hotel pick-up is not. It is from US$202 a person (checked November 2026).

Castlexperience's Montserrat, Cogwheel, Black Madonna & Winery Tour is a Montserrat day first. Its cheapest option, US$43.25 on 16 January 2027, is a big-group visit with the Basilica entrance and two hours of free time, and no winery. The winery comes with the dearer options: “Montserrat Tour. Then Tapas & Wine Tasting in a Winery” cost US$94.27 that day, and the tasting at the castle-winery is organic wine with local tapas, not cava. A guest writing in Polish in November 2026 found out on the day that the option booked did not include the winery and the tapas, so pick the option by its name. On Sundays and religious celebrations the Basilica may be closed.

Which one

Prices, ratings and review counts from the listings (GetYourGuide, checked November 2026; Viator, checked November 2026). Operators price by date and season, so treat the figures as the shape of the market, not a quote.

If cava matters more than Montserrat, the wine and cava day from Barcelona spends all six hours on it, at two family wineries: see the cava tour from Barcelona.