Wine Tasting From Costa Teguise: Tours, Pickups And The Bodegas Closest To You
Costa Teguise sits on the wrong side of the island from La Geria, but only by Lanzarote standards: the vineyards are still under half an hour away. Here is what actually picks up here, what it costs, and how to avoid the Sunday market clash.
Short answer
Costa Teguise is about 28 km from Bodega La Geria by road, roughly a 29-minute drive, and every multi-winery tour with transport on this island picks up from the main resorts. Tasting tours with pickup run from $80 to $176 per person, and self-drive bodega visits start at $28.
How Far Is Costa Teguise From Lanzarote Wine Country?
Costa Teguise is the farthest of the big three resorts from La Geria, at about 28.2 km by road to Bodega La Geria, roughly a 29-minute drive, against 14 km from Puerto del Carmen and 23.7 km from Playa Blanca. Even so, no resort on Lanzarote is more than half an hour from the vineyards, so a wine day from here is a half-day trip, not an expedition.
Those distances are routing estimates computed over OpenStreetMap road data, not official published figures, but they match what the road network actually allows. Costa Teguise sits on the north-east coast, and La Geria runs along the LZ-30 on the opposite, south-western side of the island, so you cross past Arrecife and San Bartolomé to get there. The route is simple: out along the LZ-1 or the ring road towards Arrecife, then the LZ-30 from the Monumento al Campesino junction down through the vineyards to Uga.
The practical consequence is that the drive is longer than from the other resorts but not meaningfully harder. What it changes is the calculus between a self-drive bodega visit and a tour with pickup. From Puerto del Carmen, driving yourself to one winery is a 17-minute each way; from Costa Teguise it is closer to half an hour each way, plus the return after tasting, and Spain's breath-alcohol limit applies on every kilometre of it. We come back to that below, because it is the single strongest argument for a collected tour from this side of the island.
One thing worth knowing before you plan: the LZ-30 wine road itself was resurfaced between Teguise and Mozaga under a contract signed in March 2025, covering almost seven kilometres of the stretch you will use coming from the north-east. The surface is better than older photos suggest.
Which Wine Tours Actually Pick Up In Costa Teguise?
Only two tours with transport actually collect in Costa Teguise: the four-winery day from $176, which picks up from any hotel, apartment or villa island-wide, and the evening tour from $80, with hotel pickup and drop-off. The three-winery tour from $105 and the brewery-and-wine combination from $103 both collect along the south coast instead. Single-bodega tasting tours include no pickup at all, so from Costa Teguise they mean driving yourself.
That split is the whole decision. The bodega tasting products, the chocolate pairing at $28, the El Grifo cheese tasting at $58, the natural-wines pairing at $94, are all meet-at-the-winery experiences of 1.5 to 3 hours. They are the cheapest way into Lanzarote wine, but from Costa Teguise each one adds an hour of round-trip driving to your day and puts you behind the wheel after tasting. The transport-included tours remove that problem entirely, and from this resort that is worth more than it is from Puerto del Carmen.
The three below are the ones that make the most sense from Costa Teguise. The evening tour is the natural fit for anyone staying here: it collects you, runs 5.5 hours, and returns you, which is the whole point from the far side of the island. The three-winery day is the daytime pick, but it collects on the south coast, a drive from Costa Teguise. The El Grifo tasting is the self-drive option if you would rather keep it cheap and short, and El Grifo is one of the two bodegas closest to this side of the island.
A word on what "pickup" means in practice: operators typically confirm the exact collection point, hotel or nearest stop, after booking, and Costa Teguise is compact enough that the detour is minor. No tour on the roster publishes a Playa Blanca-only or Costa Teguise-only collection, so treat resort pickup as the standard rather than a special feature.
It is also worth checking what a wine-and-volcano listing actually includes before assuming it covers Timanfaya. Montañas del Fuego now sells no tickets at the gate at all: CACT's own FAQ states tickets must be purchased online in advance, with a chosen date and time slot, adult entry 30.00 euros and children under 7 free. A tour that already holds that entry removes a real planning problem; one that only drives past the park does not. Our wine and volcano tours guide breaks down which listings do what.
Does The Teguise Sunday Market Clash With Wine Tours?
Yes, genuinely: Teguise holds its famous Sunday market in the historic town on the direct route between Costa Teguise and the wine road, and market-day traffic through Teguise and along the LZ-30 slows exactly when most morning tours depart, so a Sunday wine tour from this resort means choosing between the two or accepting a later start.
The market is the island's biggest weekly event and it pulls visitors up the LZ-30 corridor from every resort. Coming from Costa Teguise you pass through or beside it either way, since the LZ-30 wine road begins at the Monumento al Campesino junction near Teguise. The practical advice is simple. If the market matters to you, do the market in the morning and take an afternoon or evening wine experience, which is exactly the shape of the evening tour from this resort. If wine is the priority, book a non-Sunday date and you will have the road, and the bodegas, noticeably to yourself.
There is a second, quieter scheduling fact worth folding in: the LZ-30 periodically closes for island events. Announced closures have included the Romería de Los Dolores on 13 September 2025 and Ironman 2026 on 13 May 2026 across sections in Yaiza, San Bartolomé and Teguise. Those are event-specific, not recurring weekly problems, but they are the reason to glance at the island's event calendar before you fix a self-drive day.
Which Bodegas Are Closest To Costa Teguise?
The two visitable bodegas on your side of the island are El Grifo in San Bartolomé and Los Bermejos, also in San Bartolomé, both reached in roughly 15 to 20 minutes of driving before you even enter La Geria proper. El Grifo is the natural first stop from Costa Teguise, and Los Bermejos offers a €21 guided visit with tasting.
El Grifo is the one most visitors from the north-east end up at, and for good reason. It was founded in 1775, dated by the inscription on its own wine press, and it describes itself as one of the ten oldest wineries in Spain. It has a real wine museum in the original 18th-century buildings, and its visit programme is unchanged as at September 2026: a self-guided audio tour plus two-wine tasting at €15 per person, free for children up to 17; a five-wine tasting at €30; the two-hour Wine Lovers tour with six wines at €50; and the gastronomy version with lunch at €95. Opening is Monday to Friday, last entry 17:15. Our full El Grifo winery guide covers what each format includes.
Los Bermejos is the other near-side option, and it suits a shorter stop. Wine sales run Monday to Friday 08:00 to 15:00, terrace tastings by the glass need no booking at €3.50 a glass with a cheese cap, and the guided visit of about 40 minutes with a two-wine terrace tasting and goat cheese costs €21 per person. Both wineries sit in San Bartolomé, which means a Costa Teguise visitor can do either one as a genuinely short outing, there and back inside two hours, without crossing the whole island.
Beyond those two, everything else visitable is in or beside La Geria itself: Bodega La Geria on the LZ-30, open 10:00 to 19:00 with tours released for sale 12 days ahead; Rubicón with free facility access daily 10:00 to 19:00 and guided tours at €22 and €40; and Stratvs at Uga, daily 10:00 to 19:00, tour price on the winery's booking widget. The Lanzarote wineries guide compares all of them properly.
| Bodega | Side of island | Direct visit price | Hours | Booking notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Grifo, San Bartolomé | north-east, closest | €15 / €30 / €50 / €95 | Mon-Fri, last entry 17:15 | Audio tour in 5 languages; tastings adults only |
| Los Bermejos, San Bartolomé | north-east, closest | €21 guided visit; €3.50 by the glass | Mon-Fri 08:00-15:00 | Terrace by the glass needs no booking |
| Bodega La Geria, Yaiza | in La Geria | price on the winery's booking widget | daily 10:00-19:00 | Tours released 12 days before the date |
| Bodegas Rubicón, Yaiza | in La Geria | €22 and €40 guided tours | daily 10:00-19:00 | Free facility access; tours min 6, max 12 |
| Stratvs, Uga | south edge of La Geria | price on the winery's booking widget | daily 10:00-19:00 | Tasting includes Finca de Uga cheeses |
Is It Better To Drive Yourself Or Book A Tour With Pickup From Costa Teguise?
From Costa Teguise specifically, a tour with pickup is the better default, because Spain's general breath-alcohol limit is 0.25 mg/l, lower than the UK's 0.35, and a tasting flight will not leave most people confidently under it. A pickup tour costs more, from $80 against $28 for the cheapest self-drive tasting, but it removes the limit entirely.
The legal detail is worth being precise about, because it is the honest reason guided tours exist here. Under the Spanish General Traffic Regulation, general drivers are limited to 0.5 g/l in blood or 0.25 mg/l in exhaled air, and the professional drivers of passenger vehicles over nine seats, which includes your wine-tour minibus, are held to 0.3 g/l and 0.15 mg/l. The criminal threshold is 0.60 mg/l in breath. There is no parental-consent exception to the 18 drinking age in the Canary Islands either, so teenagers in the group cannot taste even with permission.
A self-drive day from Costa Teguise is still entirely reasonable if you plan it around the limit. The shape that works: one bodega, El Grifo or Los Bermejos, both on your side of the island, a modest tasting, and either a designated driver or a full afternoon before driving. The shape that does not work: three bodegas across La Geria and a 40-minute drive back to the coast. That is the day the transport-included tours are built for.
The three-winery tour makes that case on its own terms: 3.5 hours, six wines across three bodegas, a Lanzarote goat cheese tasting, capped at 8 travellers, pickup from Matagorda, Puerto del Carmen, Puerto Calero and Tias, from $105. Against the cost of three separate self-drive tastings plus fuel plus the responsibility of the drive home, the arithmetic is closer than the headline price suggests.
What Does The Evening Tour From Costa Teguise Include?
The evening tour runs 5.5 hours with pickup included, from $80 per person, rated 4.1 from 174 reviews, combining wine tasting with cheese, olives and toasted bread, a visit to the LagOmar space in Nazaret, and free time for dinner, with the dinner itself paid separately at the restaurant.
It is the most resort-friendly product on the roster for Costa Teguise, because it uses the hours you were not going to spend in a vineyard anyway. The day stays free for the beach or the Teguise market, the bus collects you in the late afternoon, and you are back in the resort at night with no driving done. The dinner being paid separately keeps the headline price down and lets you spend what you want at the restaurant, which is worth knowing before you book so it does not come as a surprise.
The rating profile is honest about what it is: 4.1 is solid rather than stellar, and the reviews reflect a mixed-experience evening rather than a pure wine tasting. If your priority is depth of wine, the three-winery daytime tour or a dedicated bodega visit will serve you better. If your priority is one easy evening out from the resort that happens to include Lanzarote wine, this is the product that matches.
What Should A Wine Day From Costa Teguise Look Like?
The strongest default plan from Costa Teguise is a morning or full-day transport tour on a non-Sunday, with the evening tour as the alternative when your days are full, and a single self-drive visit to El Grifo or Los Bermejos as the budget option. Total spend runs from about $28 per person for one self-drive tasting to $176 for the six-hour four-winery day with brunch and tapas.
The table below sets out the realistic options from this resort side by side, with the figures that actually differ between them.
| Option | Pickup from Costa Teguise | From (per person) | Duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evening tour with dinner stop | yes | $80 | 5.5 hours | Tasting with cheese, olives and bread; dinner paid separately |
| Three wineries, six wines | yes | $105 | 3.5 hours | Capped at 8 travellers; goat cheese tasting |
| Brewery plus wine | yes | $103 | 3.5 hours | New listing, no reviews yet; limited to 8 |
| Four wineries with brunch and tapas | yes | $176 | 6 hours | Includes brunch and tapas at an 1890 bar |
| El Grifo tasting, self-drive | no | $58 tour, or €15 direct at the winery | 1.5 to 2 hours | Cheese tasting included on the tour product |
| Los Bermejos guided visit, self-drive | no | €21 direct at the winery | about 40 minutes | Terrace tasting by the glass at €3.50 |
Two timing notes complete the picture. The Lanzarote harvest starts in July, in 2025 the first Malvasía Volcánica came in on 16 July, and the 2026 campaign began in the first week of July with the Consejo Regulador forecasting a close above three million kilos. If you visit in late July or August you may see activity in the vineyards, though the bodegas keep normal visiting hours through it. And if you are pairing the wine day with Timanfaya, remember the online timed-entry rule from earlier: book the slot before you build the day around it.
How Much Should You Budget For Wine Tasting From Costa Teguise?
Budget roughly $28 to $58 per person for a single self-drive bodega tasting, $80 to $105 for a collected multi-stop tour, and up to $176 for the full-day four-winery experience with food, plus dinner on the evening tour which is paid at the restaurant, and 30.00 euros per adult if you add Timanfaya entry yourself.
The cheapest collected product, the evening tour at $80, is only about $22 above the cheapest self-drive tasting once you count nothing but the headline, and that gap closes further if you would otherwise hire a car for the day or pay for taxis. Car hire for a day on Lanzarote typically costs more than the difference between a $28 tasting and a $105 tour with pickup, though we publish no verified hire figure, so treat that as a planning range to check rather than a fact.
What you get for the money differs more than the prices suggest. The self-drive products are 1.5 hours at one winery. The transport tours are 3.5 to 6 hours across several wineries with food built in, and the four-winery day includes brunch plus tapas at a bar dating from 1890, which is a full gastronomic day rather than a tasting. Our Lanzarote wine tasting guide compares the tasting formats in detail, and the free things to do in wine country guide covers what costs nothing, including Rubicón's free facility access.
| Cost item | Typical range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bodega tasting, self-drive | $28-$58 per person | One winery, 1.5-3 hours, no pickup |
| Collected wine tour | $80-$105 per person | Pickup included, 3.5-5.5 hours |
| Full-day four-winery tour | $176 per person | Brunch and tapas included |
| Direct winery visits | €15-€95 at El Grifo, €21 at Los Bermejos | Booked at the winery, no operator margin |
| Timanfaya entry, if self-paired | 30.00 euros adult | Online timed booking only, children under 7 free |
These are the questions Costa Teguise visitors ask most about wine tasting on this side of the island, from pickup logistics and distances to the Sunday market clash and the drink-drive limit, answered with the same verified figures used throughout this guide.
Common Questions About Wine Tasting From Costa Teguise
Do Wine Tours Pick Up From Costa Teguise?
Partly. The four-winery tapas day and the evening dinner tour collect from hotels island-wide, Costa Teguise included. The three-winery and brewery tours pick up on the south coast instead, and single-bodega tastings include no pickup at all, so those mean driving yourself.
How Far Is Costa Teguise From The Wineries?
About 28.2 km by road to Bodega La Geria in the heart of wine country, roughly a 29-minute drive. El Grifo and Los Bermejos in San Bartolomé are closer, on your side of the island, reachable in roughly 15 to 20 minutes.
What Is The Cheapest Wine Tasting From Costa Teguise?
The cheapest tasting on the roster is the chocolate pairing at $28 per person, but it has no pickup, so you drive. The cheapest option with collection from Costa Teguise is the evening tour at $80 per person.
Should I Book A Wine Tour On A Sunday From Costa Teguise?
Think twice. Teguise's Sunday market sits on the direct route to the wine road and slows traffic exactly when morning tours depart. Either book a non-Sunday date, or do the market in the morning and take an afternoon or evening wine experience instead.
Can I Drive Myself To A Tasting From Costa Teguise?
You can, but know the limit: Spain's general breath-alcohol limit is 0.25 mg/l, lower than the UK's 0.35. From Costa Teguise the sensible self-drive shape is one bodega, El Grifo or Los Bermejos, with a modest tasting and time before the drive back.
Is The Evening Wine Tour From Costa Teguise Worth It?
It suits a resort visitor who wants an easy evening out that includes Lanzarote wine: 5.5 hours, pickup included, from $80, with cheese, olives and toasted bread at the tasting and dinner paid separately in Arrieta. For wine depth specifically, a daytime multi-winery tour serves better.
If you are weighing Costa Teguise against other bases, the wine tours from Puerto del Carmen and wine tours from Playa Blanca guides cover the same ground for the southern resorts, and Lanzarote Wine Tours collects the full picture. Whichever base you choose, the island is small enough that the vineyards are never more than half an hour away.