2023 Puro Rofe Masdache

For wine lovers, Lanzarote is paradise. Old indigenous vines on lava soils, with Atlantic influences, but most of the wines were mainly cheap tourist wines. Rayco Fernández, a distributor based in Gran Canaria, felt the same way. He decided to do something about it. With a few like-minded partners, he decided to make true terroir wine on the island. And so it happened, and with Puro Rofe, exceptionally fine wines have now been produced in an extreme landscape. The international wine press is also praising the entire series, all of which score well above 90/100 points.

Masdache is a village near La Geria on Lanzarote, and the 2020 Masdache is a Listán Blanco-based white wine, made with 35% Malvasía and 5% Diego, from plots planted in smaller holes with greenish walls (socos) of abundant lichen. It is a serious, proportioned, and harmonious white wine, a little shy and compressed at first with a creamy note, perhaps from its time in the barrel, where it fermented and aged for seven months. It has 12.92% alcohol with good freshness, a pH of 3.22, six grams of acidity, and a very dry, austere finish. Only 1,218 bottles of this elegant Atlantic wine were produced. 93/100 Parker

FACT: Puro Rofe wines are all wines from a specific region/location. They are all single vineyards, and only a handful of bottles are ever produced.