2022 Envínate Táganan Parcela Margalagua
The Wine Advocate
RP 98
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2025 - 2032
2022 was a warmer year, and the wine is in the style of 2020, perhaps with more fruit and a little more ripeness. The 2022 Táganan Parcela Margalagua has fruit, elegance and a medium body with very fine tannins. It’s very harmonious, with an ethereal quality to it. It has a combination of dried flowers, crushed rocks, herbs and a marine whiff that makes it quite distinct. It's a very regular vineyard, but this is now a certified single-vineyard wine from the new Islas Canarias Tenerife appellation. 1,800 bottles were filled in July 2023.
Published: Nov 01, 2024
2021 Envínate Táganan Parcela Margalagua
The Wine Advocate
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
The Wine Advocate
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
The Wine Advocate
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
2020 Envínate Benje
The Wine Advocate
RP 94
Reviewed by:Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:$30
Drink Date:2022 - 2026 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
I also tasted the red varietal Listán Prieto (a.k.a. País, Criolla Chica, Mission) 2020 Benje Tinto from a similarly dry and warm vintage as 2019, vinified and aged in the same way with indigenous yeasts and matured in neutral oak barrels for eight months. It feels a little closed (reductive?) but with a great palate. It feels like these 2020s have very fine tannins and velvety textures. Give it a little bit of time, but this will be as good as the 2019. 20,000 bottles and 200 magnums were produced. It was bottled in June 2021.
2019 Envínate • Benje
Rating 94 points
Release Price $30
Drink Date 2022 - 2026 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Reviewed by Luis Gutiérrez
Issue Date 18th Feb 2022
Source February 2022 Week 3, The Wine Advocate
The red 2019 Benje was produced mostly with Listán Prieto with some Listán Blanco (4%) and Tintilla (2%) from different old vineyards in Santiago del Teide in the south of Tenerife at altitudes ranging between 900 and 1,000 meters, where sandy soils are covered by volcanic ash from the eruption of the Chinyero Vulcano in 1909. 2019 was extremely dry, and they had to reduce yields to avoid the blocking of the vines, so they only got 50% of a normal crop. The wine fermented by plot with indigenous yeasts and spontaneous malolactic and matured with fine lees in well-seasoned and neutral 228-liter oak barrels for eight months. They didn't use any added sulfur during the vinification or upbringing. It's light to medium-bodied with 12% alcohol. It's a textbook example: precise, expressive and characterful with the fruit, the peppercorn, the gunpowder and very tasty flavors with fine-grained tannins. 15,000 bottles and 150 magnums were produced. It was bottled in July 2020.