Táganan Parcela Margalagua Tinto - Fieldblend (21)

90% Listán Negro & Negramoll, 10% Listán Blanco | paar percelen in Margalagua | terroir van rood basalt | 50-150 jaar oude stokken | 275-400 meter hoogte | met de voeten gekneusd | vergisting in open kuipen van 1000 liter | rijping in gebruikt Frans eiken van 288 liter | 1500 flessen gemaakt | aromatisch | drop | laurier | viooltjes | peper | concentratie | stenig | groots met lengte en diepgang

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 very elegant 2021 Táganan Parcela Margalagua reveals notes of very fresh fruit and flowers. It is complex, nuanced and deep, with a Burgundian profile, with very fine tannins and a silky texture. It has subtle volcanic minerality and a salty twist in the finish, showing the red volcanic soils and the proximity of the ocean. It's a floral and elegant vintage in the style of 2016 and 2018, ethereal but full of energy and light. I had the chance to retaste the wine next to all the vintages ever produced and bottled, from 2012 to 2022, and this proved to be more complete and in balance, with more depth and also more freshness than any of the other vintages. So, I decided that this deserves a three-digit score as the finest Margalagua ever produced. Bravo! 1,500 bottles were filled in July 2022. I should publish the notes on that vertical in a separate article soon. 100/100 Luis Gutiérrez

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.