Fiche technique

Type de vin
White Fermented in Barrels
Millésime
2015
Alcool
13.5% vol.
Cépage
90% Listán blanco, 6% Pedro Ximénez y 4% Vidueño
Origine
Valle de la Orotava

Vignoble et élaboration

Nom
Fincas El Esquilón, La Cabezada, La Palapa, El Sauce, La Piñera, Los Topes y La Florida. El porcentaje de otras corresponde a variedades minoritarias como Marmarjuelo, Gual, Vijariego Blanco, Verdello y Baboso blanco.

L'avis des experts

The Wine Advocate:

"Of the two vintages I tasted of the entry-level white, the 2015 Trenzado had a little more alcohol and acidity. This is always mainly Listán Blanco (Palomino), with 5% of other white grapes (PX, Gual, Marmajuelo, Albillo Criollo, Malvasía, Vijariego Blanco...) sourced from six centenary vineyards mostly in the west part of the Valle de la Orotava on basalt soils at altitudes ranging from 350 to 700 meters. There are different fermentations for each vineyard, some on open bins and skins for a week, others in concrete also with skins, while others were pressed and started fermenting in stainless steel and transferred to barrels for the end of the fermentation, but always with indigenous yeasts. It matured in used 500-liter oak casks and concrete tanks for nine months. The skin contact (20% of the grapes) is faintly noticeable, and it also has had the benefit of one extra year in barrel compared with the 2016. They reckon the Listán Blanco starts developing this extra complexity after some six to eight months in bottle. The palate is very dry and tasty, with the mineral salinity clearly coming through; there's also volume and it's a little more exotic and ripe. It still feels more focused than the 2014. 16,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2016."