Coming Soon - 2024 Envinate Parcela Palo Blanco

Migan and Palo Blanco are both very old vine wines from the Valle de la Orotava zone, although they don’t bear the D.O. stamp. The old vines are trained in the Trezendo fashion: braiding new shoots over older ones until the vines begin to resemble old dreadlocks weaving over the landscape. The terrain is flatter than Táganan, more conducive to farming. Migan is two parcels of Listan Negro, both over 100 years old, while Palo Blanco is a single vineyard from the town of Los Realejos planted on black volcanic soils.

Other Reviews...
The 2024 Palo Blanco was a little difficult to taste, as the nose seemed to have been suffering a little from the recent bottling. It fermented in concrete without temperature control, and then most of the wine matured in foudre and the rest in 350-liter used barrels. The year was quite homogeneous in the zone for the whites, they got very good yields and balanced wines. The palate is stunning—chalky but with elegance. The roots from the centenary cordon trenzado vines seem to have extracted all the minerality from the soils, and the wine is eminently stony. This is not a small cuvée: they produced some 13,000 bottles of this. It was bottled in July 2025. Drink 2025-2033.
98 points
Luis Gutiérrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The nose here brings saline, like brine, with a touch of grapefruit and a wet rope-like aroma. The palate is equally saline and absorbing, with brilliant linear acidity and an incredible saline finish. From extremely old vines trained in cordon trenzado, a unique form of braided trellising in the northern part of Tenerife. This ferments in concrete tanks and ages in 2500-liter foudre. Exceptional. Drink or hold.
96 points
Jacobo García Andrade - JamesSuckling.com