What this actually is
The Wine Festival runs on two levels at once. In Funchal it is a lounge on the Praça do Povo with tastings and regional music for most of three weeks. Outside Funchal it is the harvest itself: the Live Harvest at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos recreates the traditional picking and treading, and it is the single day that fills the roads above Câmara de Lobos with parked cars.
Announced dates
One block per announced year. The window is the whole festival; the lines under it are the individual events the calendar names.
2026
Festival window: –
Published programme
2027
Festival window: –
Published programme
2028
Festival window: –
Published programme
Beyond the calendar
What the dates do not tell you, from official pages rather than from us. Anything that could not be attributed was left out.
The Funchal side of the festival centres on the Madeira Wine Lounge at Praça do Povo, with wine and food tastings and regional music groups.
The Live Harvest at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos recreates the traditional harvest and draws thousands. It is one day, and it is the busiest day of the festival outside Funchal.
European Folklore Week is organised by the Boa Nova Folklore Group and brings in national and international groups.
The Concerts in the Vineyards are held at vineyard locations around sunset, with tastings of wine produced on site.
For one of the years covered, the calendar’s Concerts in the Vineyards line prints an extra date that falls out of sequence and after the festival’s own closing day. It is not carried here; the dates that fall inside the published window are.
Where this comes from
Dates are transcribed from the Tourist Entertainment Calendar 2026–2028, published by the Regional Directorate for Tourism on June 1, 2026.
That document prints “Calendar subject to change” at the foot of every page, so treat everything here as announced rather than fixed.