Wine tasting in La Geria: which tour, and who is going to drive?
Updated October 3, 2026 · 8 min read
The short answer: for most people the vineyard tour with wine and chocolate tasting at Bodegas Vega de Yuco is the one to book — €24, an hour and a half, 4.8 out of 5 from 483 reviews, the most-reviewed wine experience on the island. If you care about the wine itself, El Grifo with the head sommelier is €50 for six wines and is adults only. If you want to walk the vineyards rather than look at them, the La Geria hike is €47 with a tasting at the end. Before you book any of them, settle the one question none of the pages asks: who is driving home?
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| Tour | What you taste | Duration | from | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vineyard tour with wine and chocolate tasting | 2 wines, artisan chocolate | 1.5 hours | €24 | 4.8 from 483 reviews |
| Sunset vineyard tour with wine tasting and chocolate | the same, at sunset | 1.5 hours | €26 | 4.7 from 188 reviews |
| El Grifo bodega tasting with the head sommelier | 6 wines, local cheese, museum | 2 hours | €50 | 4.9 from 365 reviews |
| Hiking through La Geria | wine and cheese after the walk | 4 hours | €47 | 4.9 from 211 reviews |
| Lanzarote by night: dinner, tasting and LagOmar | a volcanic wine tasting, evening | 5.5 hours | €69 | 4.1 from 174 reviews |
The two cheapest tours are the same estate, two hours apart
This is the sort of thing a comparison is for. The €24 tasting and the €26 sunset tasting both take place at Finca Testeina, the Bodegas Vega de Yuco estate on the LZ-30 in La Geria. Same vineyard, same chocolate, same hour and a half.
The sunset version costs €2 more. That is the entire premium for doing it with the light low over the Testeina volcano instead of overhead at midday — and if you have ever paid a sunset surcharge on a boat trip, you will recognise how unusual that is. The daytime tour has more than twice as many reviews and rates marginally higher; the evening one is the better photograph.
The midday booking page sets out the ninety minutes precisely: fifty minutes walking the vineyard with a guide, forty minutes tasting, and an optional ten minutes for photographs and the shop. You taste two wines, paired with artisan chocolate bonbons, and the guide covers the two grapes that define the island — Malvasía Volcánica and Listán Negro — and what the Timanfaya eruptions did to the land you are standing on. The page lists it as not suitable for wheelchair users or people with mobility impairments: this is loose black lapilli, not a garden path. Bring comfortable shoes and something warm, which sounds odd for the Canaries until you have stood in the wind at Masdache after dark.
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El Grifo: six wines, a sommelier, and no children
El Grifo is the serious one, and the booking page does not pretend otherwise. Two hours, a maximum of ten participants, led by the house’s head sommelier, six wines tasted against local Canarian cheeses, plus the wine museum in what the bodega describes as the old winery of 1775 — the oldest of its kind in the Canary Islands, in use until the 1990s. The grapes here include syrah alongside malvasía and listán negro.
€50 against €24 looks like a wide gap until you count what is in the glass: two wines at the one, six at the other, with cheese and a sommelier who can answer a real question. Per glass it is the cheaper tasting.
The thing to check before you book it: this tour is for adults only, 18 and over. If you are travelling as a family, that decides it — nobody under 18 is coming in, and there is no half-price children’s version waiting at the desk. Hotel pickup and drop-off are not included; you make your own way to the bodega on the LZ-30 near San Bartolomé.
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Nobody is going to drive you there — and that is the real cost
Look at where these tastings meet. Finca Testeina sits at kilometre 13 of the LZ-30. El Grifo sits at kilometre 11 of the same road. Neither includes a transfer, and the LZ-30 through La Geria is not a road served by a useful bus.
So the honest arithmetic for a couple is this: €24 each for the tasting, plus a car for the day, plus one adult who tastes and one who does not. That is the part the price never shows. A few ways round it:
Take the evening tour that includes the transport. The night excursion with a tasting at Bodega Suarez and a visit to LagOmar is €69 and 5.5 hours, and it is the only option here built around somebody else driving. Read its description carefully, though: the Canarian dinner is paid separately at the restaurant, so €69 is not the cost of the evening. At 4.1 out of 5 from 174 reviews it is also the weakest score on this page.
Walk instead. The four-hour hike through La Geria is €47 and ends with wine and cheese — 4.9 out of 5 from 211 reviews, the joint-highest rating here. You still have to reach the start, but one tasting at the end of a walk is a different proposition from three bodegas in an afternoon.
Or make it the first stop of a driving day and nominate a driver. If you are hiring a car anyway, price it for the day and build the rest of the route around the one person who is not tasting. Whatever you do, do not treat a wine tour as something that solves its own transport.
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Why the vines sit in holes
It is worth knowing what you are looking at before you pay to walk through it. After the eruptions of the 1730s, this valley was buried under lapilli — the loose black gravel the islanders call picón. Growers dig a hollow down through it to reach the old soil, plant a single vine at the bottom, and build a low semicircular wall of lava stone on the windward side.
The result is the landscape in the photographs: thousands of stone crescents across a black slope, one vine in each. It is not decoration. The explanation the guides give on the ground is that the picón catches the night moisture and passes it down to the roots while the wall takes the trade wind off the plant — and standing in it is the reason this visit is worth ninety minutes rather than a photograph from the roadside.
Our recommendation
For most people: the vineyard tour with wine and chocolate at €24, 4.8 out of 5 from 483 reviews. Ninety minutes, two wines, the whole explanation of why the valley looks like that, and the lowest price of any wine experience on the island.
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If you came for the wine: El Grifo at €50, 4.9 out of 5 from 365 reviews — six wines, ten people, a sommelier and a museum. Adults only.
Pay the €2 for sunset if the photograph matters to you and the light is the reason you are going. Do not pay it expecting a different tasting; it is the same estate and the same two wines.
Not for you if you wanted a tour of several bodegas with a driver included — that is not really what this island sells. And not for you if you are counting on a children’s rate at El Grifo. More tastings and vineyard walks are listed under La Geria wine tours.
Durations, inclusions, meeting points, participation limits and the age restriction at El Grifo are as published on the GetYourGuide booking pages of Guaticea Lanzarote, Bodegas El Grifo and the operators named. Ratings and review counts are from GetYourGuide. Subject to change.
