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Madeira Wine Festival + info www.visitmadeira.pt
What is MADEIRA WINE?
August 25th- September 8th
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The Madeira Wine Festival is one of the island´s main tourist attractions that pays tribute to this precious nectar and its undeniable socioeconomic significance, event held between August 25th to September 8th.
This event has been commemorated since the late seventies of the last century. It begins in Funchal and includes European Folklore Week, ornamentations, exhibitions and live portraits depicting wine and its crafts and light and traditional music performances. This Festival culminates in Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, with the Wine Harvest Festival. Find out more about what to expect from the Madeira Wine Festival:
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Taking place during the grape harvest in late August, early September, this event aims to recreate the old traditions of Madeira, which were developed over centuries of labour in viticulture.
European Folklore Week, an event organized by the Boa Nova Ethnography and Folk Group, is a folklore festival that aims to promote an intercultural gathering and promote ethnographic realities, with the participation of national and foreign groups.
Live Wine Harvest - September,7th
Street Entertainment The city centre of Funchal, especially the central walkway of Avenida Arriaga, will be filled with various adornments comprising several viticulture tools (presses, casks, barrels, grape picking baskets, traditional means of transportation), living portraits and actors who re-enact the winemaking process in Madeira (grape pressing, re-enactment of the regional craftsmen traditional customs), food, Madeira wine tastings and exhibitions and regional handicrafts apart from local folklore groups performances.
Styles of Madeira Wine Madeira Wine is often made as a monovarietal, which due to legislation, determines the wine’s sweetness level. Below we’ve listed the sugar levels associated with each grape. But how we define “sweetness” is not only by the grape and its sugars, there are levels of nuance and balance that must be factored in. There are four levels of sweetness marked on every Madeiran wine label: - Dry (Seco), Medium Dry (Meio Seco); - Medium Sweet (Meio Doce) and Sweet (Doce). (measurements are in grams of sugar per liter) Sercial – Dry (Seco) ≤ 59,3 gr/L Verdelho – Medium Dry (Meio Seco) 54,2 – 78,1 gr/L Boal – Medium Sweet (Meio Doce) 78,1 – 100,04 gr/L Malvasia – Sweet (Doce) ≤ 100,04 gr/L Tinta Negra Mole, makes wines at every level of sweetness
Other initiatives included in the programme: European Folklore Week - August 25, to 28th
On Saturday morning all attention is focused on the Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, where the Wine Harvest Festival takes place. The harvest takes place on a Madeiran farm, followed by an ethnographic parade with the participation of a large number of folklore and ethnography groups. After the parade the treading of the grapes is re-enacted - participation is free - using a traditional press in a festive atmosphere with lots of musical entertainment and regional cuisine.
Put simply, Madeira is a fortified wine, aged under heat, and produced in the demarcated region of Madeira from approximately 5 distinct grapes. It’s sold as either Dry, Medium Dry, Medium Sweet or Sweet, all of which are marked by their high levels of acidity.
Outras iniciativas que compõem o cartaz:
A Festa do Vinho é um dos cartazes turísticos do destino Madeira que presta tributo ao precioso néctar e à sua incontestável importância socioeconómica, um festival a decorrer entre os dias 26 de agosto e 8 de setembro. Por altura das vindimas, que acontece em finais de agosto e inícios de setembro), este evento procura recriar velhos hábitos da população madeirense associados aos seculares preceitos das lides vitícolas.
Semana Europeia de Folclore - 25 a 28 de Agosto A Semana Europeia de Folclore, iniciativa dinamizada pelo Grupo de Folclore e Etnográfico da Boa Nova, é um festival de folclore que tem por objetivo promover um convívio intercultural e dar a conhecer realidades etnográficas, e conta com a participação de grupos nacionais e estrangeiros.
Vindima ao Vivo - 7 de setembro Os festejos deste evento, iniciado no fim dos anos setenta do século vinte, iniciam-se no Funchal e incluem a Semana Europeia de Folclore, decorações, exposições e quadros vivos alusivos ao vinho e suas lides e espetáculos diversos de música ligeira e tradicional.
A encerrar esta Festa realiza-se no Estreito de Câmara de Lobos a Festa das Vindimas.
Na manhã de Sábado as atenções viram-se para o Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, onde se realiza a Festa das Vindimas.
Animação de rua Na Placa Central para além da habitual atuação dos Grupos de Folclore, decorrerá um programa musical muito diversificado que inclui música ligeira, músicas do mundo, canto coral, jazz, música tradicional e música filarmónica.
