2023 Envinate Benje Tinto
| Type of Wine | |
|---|---|
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Canary Islands |
| Winery | |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Grape | |
| Content (Alc) | 0.75 ltr (12%) |
| Drink window | 2025 - 2030 |
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Description
Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Martínez are the four winemakers of Envínate. They started out offering oenological advice but decided to combine this with their own wines from the same regions where they also advise. Their philosophy is to create fresh, crisp wines from local grapes that reflect the unique terroir and Atlantic climate. The results speak for themselves: honest and interesting wines. Incidentally, some very interesting wines are made on the Canary Islands. Higher-elevation vineyards and the Atlantic Ocean contribute to healthy, fresh wines.
The red varietal Listán Prieto (also known as País, Criolla Chica, Mission) Benje Tinto comes from various vineyards in Santiago del Teide in southern Tenerife, at altitudes ranging from 900 to 1,000 meters. Benje is the name of a nearby crater, where the Listán blanco originates. Half of the wine was aged in concrete tanks, and the rest was placed in 228-liter oak barriques for eight months. Upon opening the bottle, you immediately smell some volcanic notes, such as flint/gunpowder aromas. This is spicy, wild, and characterful, with hints of flowers and blood orange. It has a light to medium body with bright flavors, a wine with plenty of light, very fine tannins, and a blend of wild fruit and herbs from the volcanic soils. Best decanted during the first three years. Serve in a Burgundy glass.
Specifications
| Packing information | Box |
|---|---|
| Type of Wine | Red |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Canary Islands |
| Winery | Envinate |
| Grape | Listán Negro |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Drinking as of | 2025 |
| Drinking till | 2030 |
| Alcohol % | 12 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | 0.75 ltr |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | No |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 95 |
| Tasting Profiles | Fruitig, Kruidig, Rood fruit |
| Drink moments | Barbecue, Borrelen, Cadeau!, Met vrienden, Open haard, Voor alledag |
Professional Reviews
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 94+
Reviewed by:
Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:
$32
Drink Date:
2024 - 2029
The red 2022 Benje is floral, expressive, clean and elegant, reflecting a very good year in the region, with notes of rose petals and talcum powder, a fine texture and very elegant tannins. This has to be the most elegant Benje to date. 28,000 bottles. It was bottled in July 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.
Published: Nov 30, 2023
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Envínate (translates as "wine itself") is the brainchild of 4 friends, winemakers Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos and José Martínez. This gang of four was founded in 2005 while studying oenology at the University of Miguel Hernandez in Alicante. After graduating, they formed a winemaking consultancy, which evolved into Envínate, a project focused on exploring distinctive plots of land, mainly in the Atlantic regions of Ribeira Sacra and the Canary Islands. Their shared goal is to make very pure and authentic wines that express the terruño of each parcel in a clear and concise way. To this end, no chemicals are used in any of the Envínate vineyards, all plots are picked by hand, the grapes are trodden and the wines are fermented exclusively with wild yeasts, with a varying proportion of whole grape bunches included. Before maturing, the wines are aged in old barrels and concrete, and sulfur is only added at bottling when necessary. The result is some of the most exciting and honest wines produced in Spain today.
Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Martínez are the four winemakers of Envínate. They started out offering oenological advice but decided to combine this with their own wines from the same regions where they also advise. Their philosophy is to create fresh, crisp wines from local grapes that reflect the unique terroir and Atlantic climate. The results speak for themselves: honest and interesting wines. Incidentally, some very interesting wines are made on the Canary Islands. Higher-elevation vineyards and the Atlantic Ocean contribute to healthy, fresh wines.
The red varietal Listán Prieto (also known as País, Criolla Chica, Mission) Benje Tinto comes from various vineyards in Santiago del Teide in southern Tenerife, at altitudes ranging from 900 to 1,000 meters. Benje is the name of a nearby crater, where the Listán blanco originates. Half of the wine was aged in concrete tanks, and the rest was placed in 228-liter oak barriques for eight months. Upon opening the bottle, you immediately smell some volcanic notes, such as flint/gunpowder aromas. This is spicy, wild, and characterful, with hints of flowers and blood orange. It has a light to medium body with bright flavors, a wine with plenty of light, very fine tannins, and a blend of wild fruit and herbs from the volcanic soils. Best decanted during the first three years. Serve in a Burgundy glass.
| Packing information | Box |
|---|---|
| Type of Wine | Red |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Canary Islands |
| Winery | Envinate |
| Grape | Listán Negro |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Drinking as of | 2025 |
| Drinking till | 2030 |
| Alcohol % | 12 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | 0.75 ltr |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | No |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 95 |
| Tasting Profiles | Fruitig, Kruidig, Rood fruit |
| Drink moments | Barbecue, Borrelen, Cadeau!, Met vrienden, Open haard, Voor alledag |
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 94+
Reviewed by:
Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:
$32
Drink Date:
2024 - 2029
The red 2022 Benje is floral, expressive, clean and elegant, reflecting a very good year in the region, with notes of rose petals and talcum powder, a fine texture and very elegant tannins. This has to be the most elegant Benje to date. 28,000 bottles. It was bottled in July 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.
Published: Nov 30, 2023
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
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Envínate (translates as "wine itself") is the brainchild of 4 friends, winemakers Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos and José Martínez. This gang of four was founded in 2005 while studying oenology at the University of Miguel Hernandez in Alicante. After graduating, they formed a winemaking consultancy, which evolved into Envínate, a project focused on exploring distinctive plots of land, mainly in the Atlantic regions of Ribeira Sacra and the Canary Islands. Their shared goal is to make very pure and authentic wines that express the terruño of each parcel in a clear and concise way. To this end, no chemicals are used in any of the Envínate vineyards, all plots are picked by hand, the grapes are trodden and the wines are fermented exclusively with wild yeasts, with a varying proportion of whole grape bunches included. Before maturing, the wines are aged in old barrels and concrete, and sulfur is only added at bottling when necessary. The result is some of the most exciting and honest wines produced in Spain today.
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