2023 Envínate Táganan Parcela Margalagua
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RP 100
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $100
Drink Date: 2025 - 2035 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2023 Táganan Parcela Margalagua resembles the 2021, perhaps with a little more elegance and depth. They have lowered the use of powder sulfur in the vineyards and they select finer lees for the aging of the wines in barrel; they feel all that has helped to avoid the reductive character in the wine, even if you always have the natural tendency of the volcanic soils. It's a symphony of rose petals, cracked pepper, wet pumice stone and volcanic ash. It's medium to full-bodied, very fine-boned, with fine-grained tannins, with clout, power and concentration and gobsmacking balance. It has 12% alcohol, with a pH of 3.35 and 6.18 grams of acidity. It might have similar acidity and parameters, but the sense of freshness, acid berries and blood orange peel is higher. Bravo! 2,300 bottles were filled in July 2024.
Published: Nov 01, 2024
2023 Envínate Táganan Tinto
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RP 96
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $55
Drink Date: 2025 - 2032 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2023 Táganan Tinto comes from a very good vintage in the zone of Taganana, a very complete year with enough rain and perfect textbook conditions. They picked the grapes from Taganana later than the ones from La Orotava. It fermented without temperature control with more maceration. It's a year of concentration, depth, elegance, freshness and finesse. The finest vintage for this bottling to date. I feel a lot less reduction here. 6,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2024.
Published: Nov 01, 2024
2023 Envínate Palo Blanco
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RP 98+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $55
Drink Date: 2024 - 2034 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The grapes for the 2023 Palo Blanco were harvested earlier than ever, picked even earlier than the grapes from Taganana. It was a warm year, but the wine feels more like it's from a cool climate; it has a moderate 11.5% alcohol and is volcanic and less reductive than in previous years, fine-boned and sharp, with a vibrant palate, effervescent acidity (7.1 grams and a pH of 3.05) and a dry chalkiness that gives it salinity. It's approachable but should also age in bottle. 13,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2024.
Published: Nov 01, 2024
2022 Envínate Palo Blanco Las Molinas
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RP 98+ ⇒素晴らしい評価です
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $100
Drink Date: 2024 - 2029 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2022 Palo Blanco Las Molinas is a new white from Los Realejos, a large plot of some 1.2 hectares of vines. In 2021, the grapes from this plot went into the Palo Blanco blend that they bottled in 2022. For the 2022 vintage, they bottled a 1,500-liter oak foudre separately to make this wine, and another 3,500 liters still went to the Palo Blanco blend. This has moderate alcohol, 11.5%, and very low pH and high acidity, unusual parameters for the variety, something that seems to come from the zone. It's fresh, floral and expressive with just a spicy twist. It has a vibrant palate and a long, tasty, almost salty finish. There is a plus of complexity and finesse here. 1,988 bottles and 24 magnums were filled in July 2023.
Published: Dec 01, 2023
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RP 93+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $32
Drink Date: 2023 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
All wines are unfiltered and unfined, and the 2022 Benje Blanco showed a little cloudy but with an extremely expressive, nuanced and elegant nose, very subtle. It was a cooler year with more freshness, so they used less flor (which is always used to sharpen the whites), and the palate is long and vertical, very tasty. This is the finest vintage of this wine to date. 21,000 bottles and 240 magnums produced. It was bottled in June 2023.
Published: Dec 01, 2023
2021 Envínate Táganan Parcela Margalagua
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RP 100
Reviewed by:Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:NA
Drink Date:2024 - 2034
2021 was a cooler year, like 2016 and 2018, and they did longer macerations. The grapes were healthy, they got a little higher yield and it was all easy. The 2021 Táganan Parcela Margalagua is young and long, very balanced, complex and elegant, peppery, spicy and floral, with iron-like notes, raw meat and a salty twist on the finish. The wine is long and expansive. A more recent tasting showed more reduction, as the wine is going through an awkward phase. This was their finest effort to date, with a superb 2023 produced later at a similar level. 1,500 bottles were filled in July 2022.
I had the chance to attend a private tasting of all the vintages of the top wine from Tenerife, Envínate’s Táganana Parcela Margalagua, produced from 2012 to 2022. I later tasted the 2023, which is included in the yearly review of the Canary Islands and was not part of the vertical. I have followed this wine from the beginning, tasting and reporting on each vintage. This was a chance to taste all the years together with Roberto Santana and Alfonso Torrente, who were very candid about what they did, explaining what they changed and what they did each vintage, mistakes and all. It was a unique opportunity and provided a very good overview of a wine that has been growing in popularity, and in 2021 (and 2023), produced the best expression of this fabulous place in the northeast of Tenerife.
2022 Envínate Táganan Tinto
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RP 94+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $55
Drink Date: 2025 - 2030
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. 4,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2023.
Published: Dec 01, 2023
2022 Envínate Benje
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RP 94+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $32
Drink Date: 2024 - 2029 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The red 2022 Benje is floral, expressive, clean and elegant, reflecting a very good year in the region, with notes of rose petals and talcum powder, a fine texture and very elegant tannins. This has to be the most elegant Benje to date. 28,000 bottles. It was bottled in July 2023.
Published: Dec 01, 2023