TASTING NOTES:
Nose: Pine needles, straw & hay bale, asphalt, tar, dark minerality; figs — dried figs and balsamic figs; dried mint.

Palate: Signature grippy, lingering tannins driven by the grapes & the Canary Island terroir.

FOOD PAIRING RECOMMENDATION:
Mojo rojo (spicy red sauce) with rabbit, chicken, or eggplant
or Peri Peri chicken

ASHWIN'S REFLECTION:
Tenerife sits at the same latitude as central Florida, which, of course, is not where you'd expect to find serious wine. But El Teide, the highest peak in Spain and the world's third largest volcano, changes everything. The mountain keeps the north of the island cool and wet enough for grapes to have grown here since the 15th century. Because of the natural isolation islands have, phylloxera never reached the Canary Islands, and the vines are still on their own roots — some of them over 200 years old! The García Lima family started buying vineyard plots in the 1980's to save them from being ripped up, and, in 2006, they founded their family winery dedicated to honoring the varieties and traditions native to the Canary Islands.