You will find plenty of fine wines on the menu in the restaurants and bars of Sands Beach Resort hotel, many of them produced locally. Many assume that the dark volcanic soil is not good for growing vines but it contains rich elements that help to create the award winning flavour.

Award winning wine

The latest award has gone to the Bodega los Bermejos in the La Geria district, just inland from Costa Teguise. Canarian newspaper Diario de Avisos, in their 2007 Gastonomy Aawrds picked out the bodega as the best example in the Canary Islands of a working vineyard.

Bodegas are a distinctive sight across Lanzarote as the vines are grown in a small hollow in the soil surrounded by a low stone wall, called a Geria, that protects them from the North East Alisio wind. There are many bodegas that welcome visitors around the island, you can see the wine making process, learn a little about the history and of course, taste the wine and take a few bottles home. Ask at Sands Beach Resort reception and they will give you details of excursions that include a bodega visit, and when you order your wine in the Soleil bar or La Hacienda restaurant, try a local bottle, Lanzarote really does taste as good as it looks.