Food and Wine Walking Tour, from about \u20ac95, 3.5 hours.<\/strong> Small group, several stops in the old town, tastings along the way. Taste Funchal<\/strong>, four hours, from about \u20ac93, over 820 reviews at 4.8 \u2014 culinary plus cultural.<\/p>\n Self-guided tapas tour, from about \u20ac55.<\/strong> Vouchers for several restaurants, your own timing, no guide. For people who do not need the commentary but appreciate the shortlist.<\/p>\n Expect \u20ac90 to \u20ac100 for a guided tour \u2014 this is the category with the island’s highest entry prices and the thinnest supply.<\/p>\n Guided tasting, three wines, from about \u20ac35, one hour.<\/strong> The quick, serious introduction. Madeira wine is not the dessert-wine clich\u00e9 \u2014 Sercial is dry, and the difference between five and ten years old is immediately obvious side by side.<\/p>\n Wine lodge tours:<\/strong> Blandy’s Wine Lodge<\/strong> in the middle of Funchal is the best-known address; its own tour is cheaper booked at the door than through a portal.<\/p>\n Wine plus an excursion, from about \u20ac45.<\/strong> Combinations like Cabo Gir\u00e3o, wine tasting and Serra d’\u00c1gua<\/em>, or wine tour with cable car and a typical lunch<\/em> (from about \u20ac175, eight hours, private).<\/p>\n The September wine festivals<\/strong> \u2014 Blandy’s Wine Festival, the Grape and Farmer Festival, the live harvest at Estreito de C\u00e2mara de Lobos \u2014 are free and listed in our events calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pastel de nata class, from about \u20ac40\u201370, 1.5\u20132 hours.<\/strong> The island’s most-booked bad-weather activity. There are versions with unlimited wine and versions in working pastelarias.<\/p>\n Honey cake workshop<\/strong> (bolo de mel<\/em>) \u2014 the Madeiran Christmas cake that gets baked all year round.<\/p>\n A great deal. The Mercado dos Lavradores<\/a> costs nothing to enter; poncha is \u20ac4\u20136 in any bar; espetada<\/em> on a bay skewer, bolo do caco<\/em> with garlic butter and lapas<\/em> are on every menu without a guide. And a glass of 10-year-old Malmsey in a wine bar costs less than half a tasting.<\/p>\n Booking<\/strong> earns its keep in two places: the structured tasting<\/strong>, because comparing wines side by side is hard to arrange alone \u2014 and the baking class<\/strong>, because you come away able to do something.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 See all tours and classes on GetYourGuide<\/a> (Affiliate link)<\/small><\/p>\n Next: Funchal walking tours<\/a> \u00b7 Mercado dos Lavradores<\/a> \u00b7 Events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Madeira has three culinary things that exist nowhere else in quite this form: Madeira wine, poncha, and the Mercado dos Lavradores with fruit you will not recognise. A solid set of experiences has grown around all three \u2014 priced between \u20ac25 and just under \u20ac100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Madeira wine<\/h2>\n
Cooking and baking<\/h2>\n
What you can do yourself<\/h2>\n