The 2020 Migan is a red from La Orotava and was produced with Listan Negro grapes from the village of La Perdoma, whose ancient name was Migan. It comes from four plots: Montijo (40% of the grapes), Tio Luis (30%), La Habanera (20%) and Las Suertes (10%) ...
The 2020 Lousas Vinas de Aldea is slightly higher in alcohol and has less freshness than the 2019. It was a very early harvest (September 2nd to 14th), and they kept 20% of the wine in concrete and the rest in oak barrels and 2,000-liter oak foudres for 1...
I tasted the bottled 2022 Migan, which was paler than the sample of 2023 I tasted next to it and also felt more reductive. Sixty-three percent of the wine was with lees in used 500- and 600-liter oak barrels, and the rest (from the Tío Luis plot) was kept...
The bottled 2023 Benje, which has 9% Listán Blanco and 1% Tintilla grapes to complement the Listán Prieto, comes from a very warm and dry year in Santiago del Teide when the vines got blocked and suffered a lot, as they also did in 2019. With the experien...