2020 Puro Rofe Chibusque

Lanzarote is paradise for wine lovers. Old autochthonous vines on lava soils, with Atlantic influences but the majority of the wine was mainly cheap tourist wines. Rayco Fernández, as a distributor based in Gran Canaria, had the same feeling. He decided to do something about it. With a number of like-minded friends, he decided to make real terroir wine on the island. And so it happened and with Puro Rofe extremely beautiful wines have now been made in an extreme landscape. The international wine press is also full of praise for the entire series, all of which score well above 90/100 points.

The Chibusque 2020, is a pure Diego or a Vijariego Blanco, coming from centenary vines planted in the zone that gives the wine its name, in the village of Tisalaya. The whole bunches were pressed in a vertical press and the juice was put in a sherry vat (formerly used for Manzanilla) to ferment and it was kept there for eight months with the lees (sur lie). The barrel is always topped up and thus does not get a flor (yeast layer as with a sherry). It has 11.8% alcohol and very good acidity and freshness. The wine is wonderfully elegant, dry and spicy and ends with a smoky note. Only 1,020 bottles of the unique Puro Rofe Chibusque 2020 have been filled. 94/100 Parker.