2022 Puro Rofe Masdache Blanco

WINEMAKER: Carmelo Pena
REGION: Canary Islands, SP
VARIETY: Malvasía Volcánica, Listán Blanco
VITICULTURE: Organic

EXTREMELY LIMITED. "The 2022 Masdache is a village white from La Geria in Lanzarote, a zone in the center of the island. It's a blend of Malvasía Volcánica and Listán Blanco. The zone produces wines that tend to have finesse and a sapid palate and give notes of fennel, aniseed and aromatic herbs. Half of the volume matured in oak and the rest was kept in stainless steel, so it has less creaminess than the 2020 I had tasted last time. It keeps the poise and elegance, despite being one of the warmest zones of La Geria. In 2021, this wine was not produced." - Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate

Lanzarote lies less than 100 kilometres from Western Sahara and, of all the Islands in the Canaries, it feels and looks the most like an extension of the African continent. Unlike Tenerife or La Palma where a single volcano dominates the landscape, Lanzarote is composed of literally hundreds of smaller volcanoes, which have tended to erupt simultaneously in the past, creating a moonscape littered with volcanoes and craters.

The last major eruption here in the 1730s blanketed the entire island with small, black, aerated pebbles, like jet black pumice, which the locals call ‘rofe.’ It’s these pebbles that give the island its unique appearance and altered the terroir of Lanzarote so dramatically that viticulture only became possible after the 1730s eruptions. The rofe fittingly provides the name for our producer here, Puro Rofe, winemakers attempting the expression of pure volcanic stone.