It’s time for wine in Madeira! The Madeira Wine Festival honors the grape harvest with a celebration of traditional local heritage and wine production. Centered in downtown Funchal, the festival also embraces European Folklore Week with exhibitions, re-enactments and decorations depicting the ages-old culture of wine making. The Madeira Wine Festival always runs for two weeks at the end of August.
The central walkway of Avenida Arriaga plays host to exhibits of tools used in the art of viticulture (presses, casks, barrels, grape picking baskets, traditional means of transportation), as well as stalls selling local handicrafts and, of course, wine tastings. Many other wine related talks and musical performances take place in the Wine Village in Praça do Povo. On midpoint Saturday, you can join an actual grape harvest.
For more information, visit the Madeira Wine Festival website.