Táganan Parcela Margalagua Tinto - Fieldblend

90% Listán Negro & Negramoll, 10% Listán Blanco | paar percelen in Margalagua | terroir van rood basalt | 50-150 jaar oude stokken | 275-400 meter hoogte | met de voeten gekneusd | vergisting in open kuipen van 1000 liter | rijping in gebruikt Frans eiken van 288 liter | 1500 flessen gemaakt | aromatisch | drop | laurier | viooltjes | peper | concentratie | stenig | groots met lengte en diepgang

Envínate

Een joint venture gestart door vier wijn-nerds die elkaar zijn tegengekomen op de Universiteit. Een sprookjesverhaal toch? Na een aantal oogsten is hun reputatie flink gestegen en maken ze super wijnen op 3 verschillende locaties; langs de westkust van Tenerife, in Ribeira Sacra en in Almansa. Wijnen met laserprecisie, super energie en met een licht natuurlijk randje! Een prachtige aanvulling op ons portfolio!

Review

The 2019 Táganan Parcela Margalagua comes from a zone that has been vinified and bottled separately since 2012 because it has a very strong personality, not surprisingly, because it's one of the most fascinating and exceptional vineyards I've ever seen in my life. Since 2015, they've understood that this place is about elegance and depth rather than power. And since 2016, there's been a reduction of rain and yields, so they had to adapt the pruning. It comes from a field blend of 88% red grapes—Negramoll and Listán Negro—and 12% Listán Blanco on rocky volcanic soils. The full clusters were foot trodden in 1,000-liter plastic bins with indigenous yeasts, and the wine matured for one year in neutral 228-liter oak barrels without racking or added sulfur. It has the tantalizing and elegant aromas from Margalagua, violets and roses, volcanic ash, peppery notes and pungent flavors with a very fine texture. This is a little more volcanic than the 2020, a little more concentrated. 1,800 bottles were produced, down from 2,400 the previous year. It was bottled in December 2020. 97/100 Luis Gutiérrez

I tasted the 2019s and 2020s from Envínate in the Canary Islands, where they produced wines from different zones in Tenerife, in the north in Taganana, La Orotava and now also in Tacoronte-Acentejo, and in the south in Santiago del Teide. Both vintages were warm and dry, but 2020 is clearly superior for the white wines. Envínate is planning to build a brand-new winery from scratch, but the project will take a couple of years, so the objective is to vinify the 2023 vintage there. In Tenerife, they produce 100,000 bottles (in 2021), but some vintages are shorter, like 2020 when they produced 85,000 bottles. Their idea is to produce a grand total of 200,000 bottles between Canary Islands, Galicia and the Mediterranean. In Santiago del Teide in the south, they had half the rain they used to get before 2017, so very low yields. 2020 was a hurried ripeness, and all the zones ripened at the same time and very early. 2019 was a more balanced year. At La Orotava, both vintages were very good, without the issue with fog. But 2020 was also warmer, with a sunstroke during the summer that could easily produce some over-ripeness. They harvested some plots earlier and avoided that. The wine from Tacoronte-Acentejo is closer to the character of the wines from Taganana. They started there with a wine in 2020 that could be within the appellation of origin, but as the winery is outside the limits of the appellation, they cannot sell the wine with the appellation of origin. In Taganana, they did a great interpretation of the 2020 vintage, even if both were very dry.