SoCo Lanzorate Blanco 2023 750mL

SPAIN : CANARY ISLANDS : LANZAROTE

ORGANIC : Malvasía Volcánica, Listán Blanco, Diego

MED-BODIED, WHITE PEACH, SEA SALT, WILD FENNEL, CRUSHED STONE, NO OAK

SoCo started as a rescue. When the 2020 harvest came in and Lanzarote's hotels were shut, the Puro Rofe team bought up the fruit small growers had nowhere to send — roughly 40,000 kilos — and vinified it in their own style. What was meant as a one-off is now a permanent label.

A soco is the semicircular lava-stone wall growers build around each hand-dug pit, sheltering a single vine from the Atlantic trade winds. With the Sahara 90km east and barely 100 litres of rain per square metre in an average year, that wall and the volcanic ash beneath it are the only reason a vine survives here.

Malvasía Volcánica, Listán Blanco and Diego, fermented spontaneously on native yeasts with nothing added. The fruit is picked early to hold acidity, and 2023 came in with unusually high malic — the wine keeps that tension.

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