THE NATIVE GRAPES
CANARY ISLANDS
WHERE WILL YOU FIND A CANARY THAT SINGS
ABOUT NATIVE GRAPES ?
The Canary Islands, naturally.
REGIONAL VINEYARD
Total Vineyard Size
The combined Canary Island vineyards stretch out to a significant 7,500 hectares.
Dedicated to Quality
From what we’ve read, attention to quality seems to be on the rise. Ones to watch !
NOTABLE CRU/ZONES
Abona
1600 ha
Gran Canaria
224 ha
El Hierro
200 ha
La Gomera
120 ha
La Palma
800 ha
Lanzarote
1580 ha
Tacoronte Acentejo
1560 ha
Valle de Guimar
640 ha
Valle de la Orotava
679 ha
Ycoden-Daute-Isora
400 ha
WINE STYLE/QUALITY:
% RED
50%
% WHITE
50%
% DOP / IGP
With 10 ‘Denominated’ producing regions amongst the islands, the % of quality wines produced is high. Lanzarote with its Native Malvasia, together with Abona, La Palma and Tacoronte Acentejo represent the centre of Quality.
CANARY ISLANDS – NATIVE GRAPES
As always, we like to list those grapes which we understand are available as mono-varietals or which are locally important blenders. Naturally, as we make further discovery, we’ll update these lists.
NATIVE REDS
Listan Negro
Marmajuelo
NATIVE WHITES
Vijariego
Malvasia di Lanzarote
OUR STATSOURCES
- Wine Grapes – Robinson, Harding & Vouillamoz
- The World Atlas of Wine – Johnson & Robinson
- Il Mondo del Vino – Associazione Italiana Sommelier, Edizione 2012
- The Brothers ‘Candrian’ – Aron & Martin Candrian @ Espavino – www.espavino.com
VINTAGE INFORMATION
All our references are intended to be for indicative purposes only, due to the variability of available data from source to source and vintage to vintage. But we do try to keep ourselves ‘reasonably’ updated :)