2022 Puro Rofe Tilama Blanco

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

EXTREMELY LIMITED. "The nose of the 2022 Tilama shows some restraint and seriousness, compensating the warmer conditions of the year. It has moderate alcohol (12.5%) and nice balance. It was harvested the 15th of July, their earliest ever (until 2023!). With time in the glass, the wine shows mellower." - 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.