Nightlife in Puerto

The highlight of an evening in Tenerife is the dinner.

What to do after dinner? If you spent the whole sunny day at the beach, had a heavy dinner with wine and a few brandies with your coffee, it is not such a bad idea to go to your hotel room and fall asleep. At least then you’ll be fit for the beach again in the morning.

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… but there are other alternatives as well! Puerto de la Cruz offers nightlife to every taste. The center of entertainment is Avenida de Colón and its neighbouring streets. Just walk around and listen where the sound best fitting your mood comes from and join in.

Perhaps the best known restaurant with dancing in Puerto is ‘Café de Paris’ at Avenida de Colón. Another always popular venue is ‘Caballo Blanco’ at San Telmo. And the third venue of eternal popularity is ‘Zhivago’ at Puerto Viejo. A newcomer is the bar of the hotel ‘Noelia Playa’ at Avenida de Hermanos Fernandez Perdigon near the Playa Jardin beach. The atmosphere there is very relaxed. The most stylish venue is perhaps ‘El Coto’ in Hotel Botánico.

The young and young minded fill the discos at about midnight. The ‘bailando’ goes on to the early hours of morning. The most popular discos are ‘Victoria’ (over 30 years old!), Avenida de Colón, ‘Joy’, Calle Obispo Pérez Cáceras and ‘Concordia Club’, Avenida de Venezuela. In Los Realjos there is the disco ‘Coco-Loco’ of Hotel Maritim ; in La Paz disco ‘Qatar’.

Everywhere you can clearly see that people are on holiday and really enjoy themselves. On the dancing floors of the discos you see real performances and you can’t resist joining in. Everybody is happy and friendly and after a few drinks most people speak fluently all European languages.

If you like more peaceful atmosphere and mood music, choose a bar of a top class hotel like the ‘Tropical Palace’.

An unforgettable night can be spent in the nightclub ‘Isla del Lago’ located under Lago Martianéz. The international floor show is absolutely worth seeing. The admission is at least EUR 18 (the sum depends on whether you have dinner there or not).

There is an entrance fee to most discos and nightclubs. Usually it covers the first drink.

Genuine salsa can be enjoyed at the ‘Palacio de la Salsa’ in San Jerónimo, La Orotava.

Karaoke? Of course! E.g. in ‘The Cavern’ at Avenida de Blas Perez Gonzáles or in ‘The Buccaneer’ at Avenida del Generalisimo.

Cabaret? Sure! E.g. in the British Cabaret Bar ‘Harlequins’, Avenida Generalisimo 1. The place is packed with British tourists but there is always room for your party too.

‘Casino Taoro’ (built in 1892) is a must. The atmosphere there is sophisticated and men are expected to wear a jacket. At the Casino you can win a jackpot of one million euros with only one euro’s bet! It is just as likely as getting seven right in the Finnish lotto. The restaurant there serves fine food in grand surroundings. The bar is famous for its drinks. Youll remember for a long time the taste of ‘Cocktail Taoro’ (one of the ingredients of the drink is caviar!). The Casino opens at 7 o’clock. Many taxis take you there for free. Remember to take your passport with you! The entrance fee is EUR 3,00.

A very cosy evening can be spent in some of the multinous English pubs. They are of course crowded with the English but other nationalities are welcome as well. There are no dancing floors in the pubs but still improvised dances are arranged many nights, great fun!

History of Tenerife Wine

It may have been a Portuguese man called Fernando de Castro who, in 1497, planted the first wine on Tenerife. Just a few months after the conquest of Tenerife, the history of viticulture was already beginning on the island. Shortly afterwards, at the beginning of the 16th century Tenerife’s wines began to conquer Europe. Their success was so great writers, such as Shakespeare and Walter Scott praised their quality in some of their work.

During the 16th and first half of the 17th century, viticulture was the driving force for the economy in Tenerife. Its wine production was exported in huge quantities from the Port of Garachico, in the north of the island, and this business created wealth and development. However, from 1663 onwards wines from Madeira and Porto began to replace Canarian wines as a result of political measures and better access to the British market and the winemaking activity on the island began to slow down. On the 5th of May 1706 a volcanic eruption destroyed the Port of Garachico and interrupted exports and wine stopped being such an important industry on Tenerife.

It wasn’t until the 20th century when winemaking regained its old energy and drive. In 1985 Tacoronte-Acentejo received the first designation of origin on the island, which boosted the sector and helped it enter a new stage of life. Quality and variety are the new dominant characteristics of the industry. There are now five designations of origin that control the production of over 100 wineries on the island.

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Wines from Tenerife

The largest of the Canary Islands is also the one with the most important wine tradition, vineyard surface, production and variety of wines. There numerous wine regions nearly surround all the island. In fact, nowadays five of the ten designations of origin of the Canary Islands are located in Tenerife. Abona: this designation of origin dates from 1996 and include the wineries of the municipalities of Adeje, Arona, San Miguel de Abona, Granadilla de Abona, Arico, Fasnia and Vilaflor. The Teide is situated at the last one and also the highest vineyard of Europe, 1,600 meters high. It has a small production but of very high quality.

The predominant varieties are listan blanca and listan negra. Tacoronte: it is the Canarian wine region with the largest and oldest production. The designation of origin Tacoronte-Acentejo includes nine municipalities: La Laguna, Tegueste, Tacoronte, El Sauzal, La Matanza de Acentejo, La Victoria de Acentejo, Santa Ursula, El Rosario and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The varieties used for these wines are listan negro, negramoll, and the white varieties gual, malvasia, listan blanco and marmajuelo. Guimar: the region of Valle de Guimar include the municipalities of de Arafo, Candelaria and Guimar, and the main characteristic of its wines are the altitude and temperature contrasts. The most used varieties are listan blanca and listan negro. Orotava: the valley of La Orotava begins under the Teide and stretches to the coast. It include the municipalities of La Orotava, Los Realejos and Puerto de la Cruz. It covers about 1,000 hectares of vineyard and there are more than 20 wineries. Ycoden-Daute-Isora: more than 2,000 hectares, most of them with the varieties of listan blanca and listan negro. It includes the municipalities of San Juan de la Rambla, Guia de Isora, La Guancha, Icod de los Vinos, Garachico, Los Silos, Buenavista del Norte, El Tanque and Santiago del Teide.

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