SW1078-23 ENVINATE TAGANAN MARGALAGUA 2023 6/750ML

SW1078-23 ENVINATE TAGANAN MARGALAGUA 2023 6/750ML

Margalagua es una parcel pequeña de viñedos en el norte de la isla con vista al Atlantico. Las uvas que compenen este vino son, en su mayoria Negramoll, pero también Listan Negro, Listan Prieto, Baboso, y Malvasia Negra, de viñedos de más de cien años. Se fermentó en barricas de 500L con raspon y luego paso 11 meses en las mismas barricas. 

"The 2023 Táganan Parcela Margalagua resembles the 2021, perhaps with a little more elegance and depth. They have lowered the use of powder sulfur in the vineyards and they select finer lees for the aging of the wines in barrel; they feel all that has helped to avoid the reductive character in the wine, even if you always have the natural tendency of the volcanic soils. It's a symphony of rose petals, cracked pepper, wet pumice stone and volcanic ash. It's medium to full-bodied, very fine-boned, with fine-grained tannins, with clout, power and concentration and gobsmacking balance. It has 12% alcohol, with a pH of 3.35 and 6.18 grams of acidity. It might have similar acidity and parameters, but the sense of freshness, acid berries and blood orange peel is higher. Bravo! 2,300 bottles. I later tasted the 2023 blind with the 2021 vintage, and both wines showed some reductive personalities. They both needed to breathe, and they improved over the course of one day. The 2023 feels more floral and elegant, but the wines are of similar quality—to me, the finest two vintages of this unique wine." 100 - Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advoacte, Oct 2024