Los Bermejos Malvasia Volcanica Seco 2023 (750ml)

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Producer	Los Bermejos
Country	Spain
Region	Canary Islands
Varietal	Malvasia
Vintage	2023
Sku	11305
Size	750ml

 

A superbly expressive young wine, offering a captivating bouquet of lime, pear, and passion fruit layered with volcanic minerality, wild fennel, and a whisper of white blossoms. The palate is vivid and precise, combining generous fruit with a refined mineral backbone, bright acidity, and impeccable balance. Full-bodied yet graceful, it concludes with a long, complex, and harmonious finish. Already immensely pleasurable in its youth.

100% tank-aged Malvasía Volcanica, a grape that is truly indigenous to the Canary Islands, a crossing of Marmajuelo (an indigenous peach-skinned white grape) and Malvasía Aromatica.

Owned and run by winemaker Ignacio Valdera, Bermejos is on the easternmost island of Lanzarote. Only 125km from the African coast, conditions here are extreme. A volcanic explosion that lasted from 1730-1736 covered the entire island in lava and ash 3-5 meters deep. Consequently, each vine must be planted in a hole or hoyo that breaks through that infertile volcanic crust of petrified lava to the organic matter that can nourish it. The wind, which acts as a natural fungicide, is so ferocious that each hoyo is surrounded by rock walls for protection. The flora on Lanzarote  – including the vines – cannot grow up very high; there are not enough nutrients in the soil to support sprawling greenery. Yields are miniscule (16 hL/ha) and each berry is concentrated with flavor. All vineyard work is done meticulously by hand. Some of the wines are certified organic, depending on the vintage. Ignacio supplements his crop with purchased fruit from growers who share his vision of sustainable viticulture; with such low yields the winery would have to own most of the land on the island in order to produce financially sustainable quantities of wine from exclusively proprietary grapes