Winery visits and wine tastings in Lanzarote: the nine plans compared

From the free walk to the 95 € menu: nine plans for visiting and tasting, with what each one includes, how long it lasts and who it suits.

Nine plans for visiting and tasting run from a walk that costs nothing to a 95 € menu, and the same figure buys something different in every house. The free one is in La Geria: crossing the door of Bodegas Rubicón, which keeps its estate open every day and asks for no admission. Whatever comes after the door is paid for, and in several different ways.

At 15 €, El Grifo hands you an audio guide and closes the walk with two glasses of wine. At 95 €, the same house stretches its guided visit to two hours and finishes it with a menu in its restaurant. Six more plans sit in between, and what separates them goes beyond the price: whether the vineyard comes into it, how many people fit in a group, whether children pay and in which language someone explains what you are drinking.

Geography helps you decide. Three of the four houses stand on the La Geria road, the LZ-30: El Grifo at kilometre 11, Rubicón in La Geria itself and Testeina at kilometre 13, beside Masdache. The fourth, David Fernández, is in Guatiza, up in the north, and it asks for an outing of its own.

The nine plans in one table

How to read this table. It gathers the experiences with a published price that each house takes bookings for on its website, and all prices are per person. El Grifo's four experiences book the same way from the winery and from its wine bar, at the same price, so the table counts them once. Cells with a dash are details the house does not publish, mostly group sizes and the odd duration. And fixed-date events, such as Rubicón's concerts or the themed tastings, stay out of it: they are not compared, they arrive with a date and they get booked as they come out.

Prices as of October 2026.

What changes from one plan to another

Two plans stay at the glass, with no vineyard. El Grifo's Cata de Vinos Seleccionados is 35 minutes and five wines with commentary in its wine bar, in Spanish or English, with no visit to the winery, as the house itself makes a point of saying, and adults only. The David Fernández tasting lasts 45 minutes: five wines served glass by glass and the story behind each label, with room to ask between one glass and the next. And there is a third glasses-only way in: the list of the same bar carries a tasting of three wines for 12 €, poured and talked through by the house's team.

The guided visits with a tasting form the central block. At El Grifo the guided visit is called Wine Lovers: two hours capped at twelve people, with a sparkling wine to welcome you, a walk through the vineyard, the wine museum, the original wine press of 1775, the family house and the library, and six wines with Canarian cheeses to finish. In Rubicón, the guided visit is called Entre Muros y Viñedos Centenarios and leaves every day at half past one: 45 minutes across the estate, with comfortable shoes, a hat and sunscreen on the house's list, because the route runs outside, between the walls that give the visit its name. No tasting appears in the description of this visit. The David Fernández visit takes an hour and a half: a walk through the vineyard, down into the winery dug into the volcanic rock and a closing tasting, in small groups and with IGIC, the Canarian consumption tax, already inside both prices.

Two plans with a character of their own are left. El Grifo's audio guide is the go-it-alone option: 45 minutes at your own pace through the old winery and the vineyard, two wines with commentary at the end and, if you arrive without a booking, you buy it at the shop while there is room. The house receives visitors from Monday to Friday, with last entry at 17:15. And Finca Testeina's sunset only exists on Wednesdays and Thursdays: it takes in the vineyards and the estate's old house, at the foot of the volcano that gives the estate its name, and it ends with wines from Bodegas Vega de Yuco and artisan chocolate from the island.

Only one plan adds the table: El Grifo's big one, with the same route as Wine Lovers and a menu afterwards in the house's restaurant, in Mozaga. It is half a day by the clock: a two-hour visit with an hour and a half of menu behind it, for anyone who wants to stay at the table.

Where there is no published price

Three experiences stay out of the table because nobody publishes their price. El Legado Rubicón walks you through the vineyard, the family house and the old and modern wineries, and it ends with three wines. For its price, you ask the winery. Testeina's Eco Cata is the sister of the afternoon plan: same estate, same vineyards, two wines and chocolate, with no price in sight. And Bodega Ignacio Romero, a family project in Montaña Blanca with organic wines, announces regular visits through the vineyard with a tasting, once more with no published price.

The Casa del Vino Canario stands on its own, and it is not a winery but a wine shop: it lives inside the Monumento al Campesino, and its tastings go by dates. Behind it is Vicenta Mira, a sommelier, with a year-long programme of themed tastings from 30 € to 50 €, announced one by one with their day, so there the comparison is made by the calendar and not by the table.

If you go with children

Three of the nine plans make room for children, each with its own rule, spelt out in the table: at El Grifo's audio guide the child pays nothing, at Rubicón's guided visit the child pays less and at Testeina's sunset the child has an entry of its own. El Grifo's other three experiences are for adults only. David Fernández says nothing about ages, so that question comes before booking. And at El Grifo, if someone on the visit does not drink, they swap the tasting for an alcohol-free drink.

The language each plan runs in

El Grifo's guided visits run in Spanish and English, and its audio guide works in five languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian and German. At Testeina the day decides: English on Wednesdays, Spanish on Thursdays. David Fernández's website comes in five languages, and at Ignacio Romero they announce English, French and German, although their visits do not state a language. Rubicón announces no language at all, so that question gets asked when you book.

For and against

In the end, the choice moves between two kinds of house.

The small houses: David Fernández and Finca Testeina

In favour:

• The group does not grow: ten places at most where the house publishes a group size, and personal attention in both.
• The plans have a signature: the sunset with chocolate and the label-by-label tasting repeat nowhere else in this comparison.
• Booking opens well in advance: David Fernández's calendar reaches six months ahead.

Against:

• The calendar leaves little room: two afternoons a week at Testeina and weekday mornings at David Fernández, according to the schedules they publish.
• Part of their offer runs with no price in sight, so some plans need a question first.

The big names: El Grifo and Rubicón

In favour:

• The offer covers the whole range, from audio to menu, with plans for a spare moment and for a whole day.
• They cover more cases: the improvised visit, the one with children and the one in the less common language all have a place.
• El Grifo and Rubicón share a road, so the two fit into the same outing along the LZ-30.

Against:

• Groups grow on the guided visits, and Rubicón's does not even publish a group size.
• The short tasting goes without the winery, and the menu plan competes on price with a dinner.

How to choose

The figure points the way, but what you want to take home has the last word. If what you are after is understanding how vines grow on the ash, the visits at David Fernández and El Grifo give you time and context for it. If the moment calls for tasting without walking anywhere, the two tastings without a visit settle it in under an hour. And if the wine day deserves a table, the El Grifo option with the restaurant has it laid. Book with margin, in any case: Rubicón and El Grifo ask for it, and more so if you need a particular language or you come with children.

* We recommend checking the exact conditions of each offer with the provider.