Envinate Palo Blanco 2022

Envinate Palo Blanco 2022

Canary Islands SKU: PRF-EnvinatePaloBlanco22

Envinate Palo Blanco 2022

Canary Islands SKU: PRF-EnvinatePaloBlanco22
Regular price $49.99
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Envinate Palo Blanco 2022
Envinate
Canary Islands, Spain

98 points the Wine Advocate

The heat from late August didn't affect much the grapes that were used for the 2022 Palo Blanco, as they are picked much later than the grapes from other zones of Tenerife. So, the 2022 vintage in Los Realejos is a lot fresher than in Taganana or La Orotava. In fact, I liked the palate of this 2022 better than that of the 2021; it's vibrant, lovely and fresh. The nose is still a little reductive, and the notes of flowers and herbs take time to emerge. 13,000 bottles and 167 magnums produced. It was bottled in July 2023.

The Palo Blanco Valle de la Orotava is sourced from a tiny, steeply pitched 1.5ha vineyard of centenarian cordon trenzado (braided vines) Listan Blanco at 600m elevation. Grapes are hand-harvested, pressed full cluster into a large concrete tank and fermented without malolactic occurring, then raised in two Friulian 2500L oval foudres for 10 months. Bottling is without fining or filtration.
- 100% Lístan Blanco
- From four parcels of 100+ year-old vines near Los Realejos, all north-facing and trained in the traditional cordón trenzado at 500-850m above sea level. The only treatments in the vineyard are sulfur, bentonite, and silica.
- The grapes were destemmed and pressed then fermented spontaneously in concrete without temperature control.
- The wine was racked into one 2500L foudre and 350L barrels to rest and undergo malolactic fermentation
- Bottled without fining, filtering, and only a small addition of sulfur.


Luis Gutierrez, Wine Advocate 11/30/2023:
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.

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