Envinate Unreleased: Canary Islands Mastery

Once overlooked, the Canary Islands, a string of steep, maritime-inflected islands off the coast of southwestern Africa, have been revived thanks to four friends known as Envínate.

Envínate ("wine yourself") is the brainchild of Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Martínez. This gang formed while studying enology at the University of Miguel Hernandez in Alicante. After graduating, they started a winemaking consultancy, which evolved into Envínate, a project that focuses on exploring old-vine, native varietal parcels in the regions of Ribeira Sacra and the Canary Islands. All vineyard work is done solely by hand, a requirement given the extreme slopes; cellar practices remain hands-off; all with the simple goal of expressing their unique terruño (terroir)."

2023 Envinate Canary Islands La Santa de Ursula Tinto
WA96
"When I tasted the 2023 La Santa de Úrsula in late June, it had finished its élevage in oak and was in stainless steel waiting to be bottled at the end of July. They keep the wines in tank for a while before being bottled, but this is very representative of the final wine, as they adjusted the sulfur and everything. It's floral and aromatic, spicy, very elegant, balanced, fresh and approachable. It's a step up from the 2022. 6,000 bottles produced."
-Luis Gutiérrez

2022 Envinate Canary Islands Pedreira
WA95-96
"The bottled 2022 Pedreira is very expressive, a characteristic of the vintage from very early on. It's the first vintage of a new single-vineyard wine from an extremely old vineyard that was planted in 1914 with head-pruned vines. They only selected the red varieties, a field blend with all the local grapes and quite a lot of Brancellao, which is possibly responsible for the intense floral aromas here. The nose is expressive, floral and elegant. It fermented in a bin with 100% full clusters that were foot trodden and then matured in two 228-liter barrels for around 11 months. 600 bottles produced."
-Luis Gutiérrez

2023 Envinate Canary Islands Palo Blanco
WA98+
"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."
-Luis Gutiérrez

2023 Lousas (Envinate) Ribeira Sacra Parcela Camino Novo
WA99
"The nose of the 2023 Lousas Camiño Novo has all the flowers, wild herbs and red berries and is as intoxicating, perfumed, showy and nuanced as the Seoane and Rosende but with a flinty and smoky note and a step up in nuance, complexity and depth, which puts it in a different category level. The palate is seamless and solid, with fine-grained tannins and great precision and length, very clean and focused. It even has some stony austerity on the palate. This comes from an 80+-year-old plot at 350 to 450 meters above sea level and a south exposition planted with 85% Mencía, 12% Alicante Bouschet and 3% other varieties on gneiss soils, harvested the 7th of September. It fermented with 100% foot-trodden full clusters with 25 days of maceration and matured in neutral 228- and 500-liter oak barrels for one year. It comes in at 12.8% alcohol and perfect balance. This has to be the finest Camiño Novo and their finest wine from the region so far. Bravo! 1,560 bottles produced."
-Luis Gutiérrez

2023 Envinate Canary Islands Taganan Margalagua
WA100
"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 produced."
-Luis Gutiérrez

2023 Envinate Canary Islands Palo Blanco Las Molinas
WA99
"The second vintage of the 2023 Palo Blanco Las Molinas is quite similar to the regular Palo Blanco from the same year: saline, sharp and with great purity, precision and cleanliness. This matured in a Garbelotto 2,500-liter oak foudre. It has a moderate 11.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.01 and 7.48 grams of acidity. It's vibrant, full of energy and electricity, with effervescent freshness and volcanic minerality. This is very young but has the elements and the balance to age neatly in bottle. 2,500 bottles produced."
-Luis Gutiérrez

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