Envinate, Tenerife Benje Tinto Vintage:2017 delivering oodles of honeyed

delivering oodles of honeyed

Here the slightly less elegant and more deeply pitched nose offers up an attractively fresh and well-layered array of cherry

(from 60+ year old vines in En Gémeaux that produce around 1½ barrels

thick and unctuous effort that's overflowing with notes of browned butter

Envinate, Tenerife Benje Tinto Vintage:2017 delivering oodles of honeyedThe red 2019 Benje was produced mostly with Listn Prieto with some Listn Blanco (4%) and Tintilla (2%) from different old vineyards in Santiago del Teide in the south of Tenerife at altitudes ranging between 900 and 1,000 meters, where sandy soils are covered by volcanic ash from the eruption of the Chinyero Vulcano in 1909. 2019 was extremely dry, and they had to reduce yields to avoid the blocking of the vines, so they only got 50% of a normal crop.