Envinate - Migan Tenerife Canary Islands 2021 (750ml)

 
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Producer Envinate
Country Spain
Region Canary Islands
Varietal Listan Negro
Vintage 2021
Sku 1636073
Size 750ml

Envinate Description

Listán Negro from centenarian piè franco vines trained in the ancient cordon trenzado in two parcels at 350m and 600m. The grapes were foot-trodden and fermented by parcel in large concrete vats with some whole clusters,then pressed into 228 & 600L old French Barrels for malolactic and aged for 11 months.

Wine Advocate: 95 Points

The more reductive and austere 2021 Migan has the classical Orotava profile the spicy pepperiness some smoky undertones and a medium-bodied palate with very fine slightly dusty tannins. This wine is bottled a bit later; 12500 bottles and 150 magnums were filled in December 2022. 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. Published: Nov 30 2023

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