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Engenho da Calheta, tasting bar

Updated 2026Avenida Dom Manuel I, Vila da Calheta, Calheta

The bar attached to the working sugar-cane mill in the village, pouring the rum distilled a few metres away, cane honey, fresh cane juice in season, and poncha made the way the island makes it. Entry to the mill is free; you pay for what you drink.

The crushing machinery at the Calheta sugar mill, where the rum in the tasting room is distilled
Engenho da Calheta, tasting barRHaworth / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Type
distillery
Area
Avenida Dom Manuel I, Vila da Calheta

Opening hours shift by season. Call ahead for late nights.

Sights nearby

All landmarks →
Workers feeding cut cane into the crushing machinery at the Calheta sugar mill during the season
0 m walk
Working sugar-cane mill and rum distillery

Engenho da Calheta

The white façade and basalt trim of the parish church of the Holy Spirit in Calheta
50 m walk
Late 15th century, rebuilt 1639

Igreja Matriz da Calheta

The red-walled Casa das Mudas manor house above Calheta, which gives the museum its name
310 m walk
Building opened 2004

MUDAS, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira

The golden-sand beach of Calheta enclosed by two stone breakwaters, with the Atlantic beyond
560 m walk
Opened 2004

Praia da Calheta

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