Envinate, "Benje Blanco" 2022

Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands.

100% Listán Blanco. From several parcels of 70 – 1 1 0 -year -old vines at 900 - 1200m elevation farmed by Envínate and 15 local families. Viticulture here is highly traditional: vines grow untrained, the soils is worked by hand, and no chemicals are used. The grapes are harvested by hand, destemmed and rested on their skins for 12 -24 hours. The grapes were then pressed and fermented with native yeasts and without temperature controls by parcel in concrete vessels. After fermentation, the wine rested on its lees in a mix of used French oak vessels (30%) and two concrete tanks (70%). One of the concrete tanks developed a veil of flor (~30% of the wine aged under flor), and all of the wine underwent spontaneous malolactic fermentation. Bottled without fining, filtering and with only a tiny addition of sulfur .