Envinate, "Benje Tinto" 2022

Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands.

90% Listán Prieto, 9% Listán Blanco, 1% Tintilla. From several parcels of 70 –120 -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 fermented by parcel with with native yeasts in a mixture of concrete vats and plastic tanks. All parcels completed spontaneous malolactic fermentation. After fermentation, the wine aged for eight months in 228 -litre neutral French oak barrels (65%) and concrete tank (35%) without racking. Bottled without fining or filtering and with only a tiny addition of sulfur.