Los Bermejos Listan Negro 2023 750ml

SPAIN : CANARY ISLANDS : LANZAROTE

SUSTAINABLE : Listán Negro

MED-BODIED, TART RED CHERRY, VOLCANIC MINERAL, SMOKE, DRIED HERBS, OAK

Lanzarote is 125 km from the African coast — bone dry, swept by Atlantic and Saharan winds, blanketed in volcanic rock from an eruption that lasted six years in the 1730s. Each vine here is planted in a hoyo, a hand-dug hole through the lava crust, surrounded by its own stone wall for wind protection. Yields run around 16 hL/ha. All work is done by hand.

Listán Negro survived phylloxera only here, on these volcanic islands — essentially extinct on mainland Spain. This is the traditional-maceration tinto from winemaker Ignacio Valdera, aged 5 months in French Allier oak for structure and depth. More concentrated than Bermejos' fresher carbonic maceration cuvée; still driven by the grape's signature tartness and mineral spine.

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