2022 Puro Rofe Precinto Mecánico Blanco

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

EXTREMELY LIMITED. "There are two new wines in 2022 produced in collaboration with winemaker Eloi Cedo, better known for his work in Mallorca. The 2022 Precinto Mecánico was produced with Malvasía Volcanica from grower Ascensión Robayna in the Tilama zone. It fermented with wild yeasts, unfiltered and unfined, and bottled without any added sulfur. It's very smoky and flinty and with a reductive personality, with notes of toasted sesame seeds. It has a moderate 11% alcohol, which seems to compensate the warmer character of the year. It's precise, clean and focused. Only 564 bottles 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.