spanish wines - Canarias

La Santa de Ursula is the latest red addition from the top winery Envinate. For me personally, also the most beautiful. Sourced from two different plots in the Tacoronte region. A fine blend primarily of Listan with Negramoll. The most Burgundian of the red wines!

Behind the Envinate project, one of the most prominent of Spain's new generation, are Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Martínez. The four met in 2005 while studying oenology at the University of Alicante and formed a team.

Táganan is a village on the North-Western side of the Teide, on the island of Tenerife. The vines are quite close to the coast. This cuvée blends different terroirs from Taraconte.

Migan is made from old vines in La Orotava, where the white Palo Blanco is also produced. Here too, we find the classic Cordón Trenzado, or braided vineyards—unique vineyards rich in history, always marked by their typical volcanic characteristics. The best red from this region!

The freakiest of all the Rofe cuvées. A field blend with red and white grapes. Hence its colour, habitually like a clarete, but a little lighter this year, so it qualifies for a white. A wild wine!

Pure Rofe Blanco is a blend of various terroirs all around Lanzarote. The common factor being the soils of black volcanic sand called 'rofe', locally.

The Puro Rofe Tinto is the blend of different terroirs throughout Lanzarote. However, the common thread is always the subsoil consisting of the typical black volcanic sand called "rofe".

Juan Bello is Puro Rofe 'first growth". This parcel lies on a volcano, in Masdache. The vineyard is impressive - the 100-year-old vines survive in small craters or hoyos.

Masdache is a village in La Geria region, on the Island of Lanzarote. This cuvée is a field-blend from 100-year-old vines. One of the "wildest" wines made by Puro Rofe.

Something else! May be because it is a 100% Malvasia Volcanica, but also because the vines grow in sandy soils very near to the ocean, in the area of Tilama (hence its name). The saltiest of all the Puro Tofe cuvées.

The freakiest of all the Rofe cuvées. A field blend with red and white grapes. Hence its colour, habitually like a clarete, but a little lighter this year, so it qualifies for a white. A wild wine!

Pure Rofe Blanco is a blend of various terroirs all around Lanzarote. The common factor being the soils of black volcanic sand called 'rofe', locally.

The freakiest of all the Rofe cuvées. A field blend with red and white grapes. Hence its colour, habitually like a clarete, but a little lighter this year, so it qualifies for a white. A wild wine!

Jesús Méndez revives old ungrafted varieties from the volcanic terroirs of the Canary Islands - vines that were slowly disappearing. Only 2,000 bottles of this blend of 3 red grapes are produced.