Envinate

Envinate (translates as "wine yourself") is the brainchild of 4 friends, winemakers Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and Jose Martinez. This gang of 4 formed back in 2005 while studying enology at the University of Miguel Hernandez in Alicante. Upon graduation, they formed a winemaking consultancy, which evolved into Envinate, a project that focuses on exploring distinctive parcels mainly in the Atlantic-inflected regions of Ribeira Sacra and the Canary Islands. Their collective aim is to make profoundly pure and authentic wines that express the terreno of each parcel in a clear and concise manner. To this end, no chemicals are used in any of the Envinate vineyards, all parcels are picked by hand, the grapes are foot-trodden, and the wines are fermented exclusively with wild yeasts, with a varying proportion of whole grape clusters included. For aging, the wines are raised in old barrels and concrete, and sulfur is only added at bottling, if needed. The results are some of the most exciting and honest wines being produced in Spain today.

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LUIS GUTIRREZ, The Wine Advocate (Robert Parker.com)

A small group of forward-thinking producers has made the Canary Islands one of the most exciting wine regions in Spain.
There are more and more terroir-driven projects, and the existing ones keep improving their wines, looking to express their local varieties and volcanic soils with the nuance of the place. Even the smallest island can show different characteristics from place to place, as altitude and soil can change in a short distance.

As I have seen in many other regions in Spain, many have produced their finest wines to date in 2018Env穩nate, Suertes del Marqu矇s and Victoria Torres especially which indicates a fantastic vintage and a fantastic group of wineries growing and improving almost yearly. Basically all the producers in this report, the most exciting to me, didnt exist 10 years ago. And more than half of them didnt exist when I wrote my first article on the region! You can see how different things were and how recent all of this is. So, maybe the renaissance here has been a revolution This is my fifth article on the Canary Islands, and I think I can say today its one of the most dynamic and exciting wine regions in Spainand if you have followed, you have seen it all happening.

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