Táganan Tinto - Fieldblend

+/- 90% Listán Negro en Negramoll met kleine beetjes Listán Gaucho, Mulata en Malvasía Rosada | verschillende percelen in de omgeving van Chavarria | terroir van vulkanisch basalt en zand | 200-400 meter hoogte | 50-150 jaar oude stokken | 50% whole bunch | vergisting in open tanks van 1000 liter | rijping in gebruikt Frans eiken van 288 liter voor 12 maanden | juicy | aardbei | kers | pruimen | finesse | expressief | type Morgon uit de Beaujolais

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 red 2020 Táganan Tinto comes from an even lower yielding vintage. It's a village red from different plots planted mostly with Listán Negro and Negramoll and also some Mulata, Listán Gacho (pink/rosé) and Malvasía Rosada. It fermented with 50% to 70% stems, depending on the plot, and matured in well-seasoned, neural 228-liter oak barrels for one year. They had lower yields and very concentrated grapes, but they managed to produce fresher wines with shorter macerations and higher fermentation temperatures. The palate is vibrant, long and fresh, with fine tannins and deeper and more layered. A real triumph. There's more finesse here and finer tannins. 2,400 bottles were filled in December 2021. 95/100 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.