Envinate - Taganan Tinto Tenerife Canary Islands 2022 (750ml)
Price: $50.00
| Producer | Envinate |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Canary Islands |
| Varietal | Listan Negro |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 6992 |
| Size | 750ml |
Envinate Description
Many different local red grape varieties including Listán Negro, Listán Gaucho, and Malvasia Negro.
From ancient parcels at 75-300m right on the coast. The vines are own-rooted and untrained, and the precarious slopes mean everything must be done manually. The wine was fermented in open plastic tubs and concrete tank then raised in small tanks and used 225 and 500 liter barrels for around 8 months. This year, maceration were shorter and more of the bunches were left whole cluster during fermentation.
Wine Advocate: 94+ Points
The just-bottled 2022 Táganan Tinto is juicy and primary but with very good balance and no excess. It has less reductive character and is sapid and balanced. They did slightly shorter macerations and used a little more full clusters for this wine. It's a very good vintage for this bottling. 4000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2023. 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
