Area guide: Puerto del Carmen and Playa Blanca

Close to the hotel there is little wine, and what there is you can make the most of: two wineries you can visit, a tasting with no booking and evening tapas with Canarian wine.

Seven wine addresses sit between Puerto del Carmen and Playa Blanca, most of them morning places, and none of them needs an expedition plan. This is where the island sleeps: the two towns hold the hotels and the beaches, and the vines grow inland, in La Geria and the ash fields. What the zone offers is the other face of wine on holiday: you drink Lanzarote wine without the glass organizing the day, with the salt still on your skin.

Bodega Vulcano de Lanzarote, the zone's serious visit

The serious wine visit in this zone has an address: Calle Víctor Fernández, in Tías. Vulcano presents itself as a boutique winery, and the tag fits, because it makes young wines in several fermentations through the year and, the winery says, it was the first to have its own must bank, a tank that keeps the must cold so it can make wine more than once per season and reach the glass fresh. In the whites, the grape is Malvasía volcánica, the island's native variety.

Visits and shop run Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00, and the weekend closes down altogether. The winery lists English and German, and the shop ships to the Canary Islands, Spain and Europe.

Bodegas Timanfaya, the cave winery of Mácher

If Vulcano is the polished house, Timanfaya is the cave. In Mácher, in the municipality of Tías, the winery that carries the volcano's name works inside a cave that lava and ash hollowed out, as their own website tells it. It works with old vineyards in La Geria, to which the house attributes centuries: some vines are more than 250 years old. At the front is the winemaker Alberto González Plasencia, working in small lots, and the winery's pride is a sweet reserva from 1999 that ages in the cueva de Lorenzo, with awards from inside and outside Spain, as they tell it themselves.

The schedule is not published. They offer tastings, tasting courses and events made to measure, and the way to set up any of the three is the phone: 616 00 97 90. Their website, which still announces that it is coming soon, does not help settle the doubt either.

La Rika: when wine arrives at night

The night has an address: La Rika, on Calle Toscon in the middle of Puerto del Carmen, open Monday to Saturday from 19:00 to 23:00, with Sunday off. By 14:00, Vulcano and Chibusque have already closed. It is a wine shop with a kitchen that does signature tapas and local produce, zero-kilometre in its vocabulary, and a selection that runs from Canarian wines to mainland ones. The menu's standouts are dates stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in cured pancetta, and the pear carpaccio with blue cheese, cashews and palm honey. The customer reviews La Rika displays on its page repeat one name, Carla, the owner, who walks you through the menu dish by dish. You book the table over WhatsApp.

Wine Tours Lanzarote: the winery day without driving

Anyone who would rather leave the car at the hotel has an operator in the zone itself. Wine Tours Lanzarote runs daily with groups that never pass eight people and a guide trained in wine by the WSET, as they advertise: a walk on foot through three vineyards, six tastings and Lanzarote goat cheese along the way, with tapas as an option at the end. They promise pickup and return, both guaranteed, and the tour also works for cruise arrivals. The price of these departures is not published on their website.

It is also the doorway to understanding the farming. Here there are no rows of vines: there are hoyos. Each vine lives in a conical hole covered with volcanic sand that shields it from the wind and stores its moisture, and that landscape makes no sense from the roadside. It makes sense standing inside a hoyo, with the ash climbing up your shoe. Among the operator's regular departures is the Experiencia Vulcano, scheduled once a month: three hours that start at 10:00 in the Masdache vineyard, continue at the Tías winery and end with four wines and local goat cheese, guided by a professional certified by the WSET. The group stays under eight, children join from 12 years old and the under-18s get soft drinks. The experience costs 59 €, the meeting point is in front of the secondary school in Puerto del Carmen or directly at the winery, and booking goes through the operator's website, which presents Vulcano as the island's only certified vegan winery. For groups of six or more there are also private tastings wherever you choose, hotel included.

Bodegas Chibusque, for the suitcase bottle

The unhurried way of buying wine is on Calle Libertad in Tías, at Bodegas Chibusque, Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 14:00. It is a shop before it is a winery, and its visits are not confirmed. Island wineries share the counter with names from the Spanish mainland, and the shop's own presentation makes a promise you will not see in many shop windows: wine, olive oil and plankton. It also sells online, for anyone who would rather let the postman carry the luggage weight.

Playa Blanca: a terrace with a tasting and little else

In the south, in the municipality of Yaiza, the wine map simplifies at a stroke. The plan has a proper name: Brunchi, a family shop of wines, liqueurs and craft beers in the Marina Rubicón. Its tasting asks for no booking: Monday to Saturday, 14 € for four glasses of the volcanic wines of Lanzarote in the sun of the terrace. Behind the counter, according to the shop itself, wait some 800 spirits and about 100 wines, among them the island's main ones, and the service runs in English.

The other house with a winery's name is Tierra de Volcanes, a small family house of the south that publishes no phone number and has given no sign on its Instagram account since the 2020 harvest. The house's visits are not confirmed, so the afternoon stays with the beach.

And there is one plan that steps outside wine but stays in the zone: the Museo Atlántico, the underwater museum, with more than 300 sculptures between 12 and 14 metres down, 300 metres from the coast and close to the Papagayo beaches. The dives are run by Dive College Lanzarote, and it works both for divers who dive on a licence and for anyone who wants to try for the first time.

The wine addresses, at a glance

Opening hours as of October 2026.

If the holiday is all about the beach and the glass only shows up at the end of the day, La Rika covers the night in Puerto del Carmen and Brunchi takes the south's long lunch, and with that the week is served. If wine is going to own a whole morning, the play wins with a tour: the daily departure of Wine Tours or the Experiencia Vulcano put vineyard and winery into the same day. And for the bottle to take home, Vulcano's boutique and Chibusque open on weekdays only.

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