Quick Details

Duration: 1.5 hours
Type of Tour: Wine Tasting
Tour Location: Funchal
Number People: Minimum party of 1 required to book
Questions about the Tour: +351911701055 (WhatsApp)

Adult

(18+ years - Premium Tour)

€ 52

Child

(6-17 years - Premium Tour)

€ 10

Young Child

(0-5 years - Premium Tour)

Free

Uncover the essence of the island with a Madeira Wine Experience!

This best-seller group tour of our wine lodge, covers essential information about Madeira wine, the history of the company, barrel making at the cooperage, wine storage in Brasilian satinwood vats, grape varieties and their transformation into wine. The tour includes access to the family museum with unique items from the history of Madeira island, followed by a tasting of 2 samples of Madeira wine.

What is included

Cooperage
“Canteiro” Ageing Rooms
Vine to Wine Exposition
Satinwood Vats
Museum
Tasting

This experience will give you the opportunity to explore 200 years of Madeira wine. Available from Monday to Friday, the tours visit the various areas of the lodge, finishing with a tasting.

Meeting point

After booking we will send all the details of the lodge, location (meeting point) and contact.

The lodge of our producer was bought by Charles Ridpath Blandy in the mid-19th century and not only was it an extremely valuable property but was also very useful due to the fact that it was directly connected to the family’s townhouse.

Each one of the lodge’s rooms has its own character and due to the different temperatures and humidity, the wines all have different aging profiles based on their location. The eastern warehouse holds wine dating back to 1920 and the family’s private vintage collection is held within thick stone walls, below the ground floor. The museum holds artifacts which include letters from Sir. Winston Churchill, coins from Blandy’s bank and the island’s oldest wooden lager, dating back to the 17th century.

Murals from the renowned German artist Max Römer illustrate the traditional Madeiran harvest in the main tasting room where a wide range of the company’s wines is kept.

The Vintage room is the cathedral of Blandy’s rarest and oldest Madeira wines, where wines dating from the beginning of the 20th century can be tasted, such as Blandy’s Bual 1920.

Today the Blandy’s Wine Lodge is the heart of the family’s wine business where over 650 barrels and vats are stored, aging the finest of the family’s wines in the traditional canteiro method.