Bodegas Viñátigo, Rosado Tenerife Listán Negro 2023

• producer: Bodegas Viñátigo
• region: Canary Island
• country: ESP
• grape variety: listán negro
• production notes: woman owner/ winemaker
  

From the importer: Juan Jesus is a proud native of Tenerife and the fourth generation of growers in the island. During the twenty-five years that he’s overseen Bodegas Viñátigo, he has considerably increased its holdings, planting varieties that he and his team recuperated. During these years he has also juggled the classes he teaches as a professor of viticulture and enology at the Ciclo Superior de Vitivinicultura. Juan Jesus and his wife Elena Batista – who has helped along the way, dealing in all aspects of production, from the vineyard to the cellar – have worked closely with Fernando Zamora from the famous Rovira I Virgili Universtiy in Tarragona, to study, catalog, preserve, and vinify imperiled indigenous grape varieties.

Varieties such as Baboso Negro and Vijariego Negro are known to us now by these names mainly because of the work of this duo who identified more than eighty different varieties in the Canary Islands. They recovered those varieties from the island of El Pinar and have since propagated them in Tenerife.

Bright pink, dry, and refreshing, with red fruit flavors and a hint of amaro on the finish, underpinned by signature Canary volcanic minerality.