Benje Tinto - Listan Prieto (21)

96% Listán Prieto, 2% Listán Blanco en 2% Tintilla | verschillende percelen net buiten Santiago del Teide op de Pico del Teide | 300 meter hoogte | 70-120 jaar oude stokken | 50% whole bunch | vergisting in een mix van beton en plastic tanks | rijping in gebruikt Frans eiken van 225 liter voor 8 maanden | kers | zacht | gul | humus | drop & lavendel | zeer fijn en lichtvoetig | meeste naturel stijl van alle wijnen

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 2021 Benje comes from a very warm and dry year in Santiago del Teide when the vines got blocked and suffered. They did a softer vinification, with shorter macerations and cooler temperatures, and they also bottled it a little earlier. The wine is a bit more reductive with a slight touch of rusticity. 25,000 bottles and 300 magnums produced. It was bottled in June 2022. Luis Gutiérrez 93+/100

Envínate has increased a little the vineyard surface in Taganana and, from 2023 onward, could produce a little bit more of their wines from the zone in the northeast of Tenerife. They work there and also in the regions of Orotava, Tacoronte and Santiago del Teide. All the wines will be moved to the Tenerife appellation within the generic Islas Canarias appellation in 2023. In 2022, the wines from Santiago del Teide are still Ycode-Da and the others are Islas Canarias - Tenerife. In Santiago del Teide, 2022 was a very good vintage, with good vegetation growth that protected the grapes from the sun, good ripeness and more delicate and elegant wines. 2021 was extremely warm and dry, with heat strokes that blocked the vines, and the grapes got a hurried ripeness with some herbal notes. In the region of Tacoronte, they produce one red and one special cuvée for a Canary restaurant in Madrid called Gofio. Here, 2021 was a better, less hurried vintage, with more elegant wines than the warmer and more concentrated 2022, but the 2022s also showed very well. In the Orotava Valley, they have two new whites from 2022, where the vintages are similar to the part of Tacoronte where they work, so the 2021s showed fresher and the 2022s more concentrated and a little riper. In Taganana in the northeast of Tenerife, the vintages are similar to the wines from Tacoronte and Orotava. There were good rains in 2022 that allowed the plants to close the cycle, and the wines are fresher and have very good balance. 2022 feels similar to 2020, a drier year, warmer and with riper wines, but in Taganana, it never gets too warm. In fact, it never got warmer than 30 degrees Celsius that summer.