Táganan Blanco

Táganan Blanco is the village white of Envínate's Tenerife range, from a scatter of ancient parcels around Taganana on the Anaga peninsula - untrained, ungrafted vines of 60 to 200-plus years clinging to volcanic cliffs at 75-300 metres just above the Atlantic, worked by hand with some fifteen local families. It is a field blend of Listán Blanco, Gual, Malvasía, Marmajuelo, Verdello, Forastera Gomera and Albillo Criollo, plus a few vines nobody has identified. Each parcel ferments separately with wild yeasts, a portion with several days of skin contact, then the wine rests around eight months on fine lees in old barrels and stainless steel; minimal sulphur at bottling, no fining or filtration. A low-alcohol (about 12%) Atlantic white - salty, smoky, pear skin, citrus and wet stone.