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Artífice Listán Blanco 2021

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Spec sheet

TypeWhite Wine
Region
Grapes
Producer
AllergensContains sulfites
Alcohol contenti12.5%

What does this wine taste like?

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Deep yellow
Bouquet
Floral notes / Bay / Smoky notes
Mouth
Dry / Rounded / Velvety

Ratings and awards

201993 PK
201892 PK17 JR
201791 PK90 DC
201690 PK90 DC
201590 PK15.5 JR91 PN
201491 PN
PK: ParkerJR: Jancis robinsonPN: PeñínDC: Decanter

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker and Jancis Robinson

The 2019 Artífice Listán Blanco is produced with Palomino grapes (called Listán Blanco in the Canary Islands) from seven old vineyards. It fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in a 3,000-liter oak foudre and in two used 500-liter oak barrels, where it matured for 11 months. It's low in alcohol and has good freshness. There is a pungent note on the nose, common to most of the whites here, a mixture of orange blossom and cloves, floral and balsamic. Pérez works quite reductively and with plenty of gross lees. The palate has pungent flavors and a velvety texture and comes through as elegant and complex. There is a little bit of change in this wine because of the year. 5,000 bottles were produced. It was bottled in January 2021.

— Luis Gutiérrez (17/02/2022)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2019 - 93 PARKER

Intense, smoked-rocks and samphire-in-rock-pool nose. Tastes like lemon chiselled out of a salt pan, like a cold mountain stream stained brown by bracken, like bleached sandy shells caught in kelp, like a white peach picked three days too early. It glitters, in the mouth. It's brine and salt spray crashing against cliffs. The Vin Cognito notes mentioned bacon fat. Tasting this cold out the fridge, I wrinkled my nose and thought, 'nonsense: too angular, too lemon, too mineral'. But then, a couple of hours later, after my glass had been sitting on the garden table warming in the sunlight, I took a sip and almost dropped the glass in shock. Yes! Lardo! Almost pork-scratching-like! Amazing, but yes, they're right. Bacon fat. Tempting as it is to drink a wine like this very cold, it became far more interesting at >14 °C. Food pairing? I'd wrap scallops in lardo, flash fry them in a pan or pop them on a searingly hot barbecue for a minute or two, squeeze a fresh lemon over them, and kick back.

— Tamlyn Currin (15/07/2021)JancisRobinson.com Vintage 2018 - 17 JANCIS ROBINSON

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Winemaking

Ageing period11 months
Barrel ageUsed
Type of woodFrench oak

Vineyards

ClimateAtlantic

The winery

Borja Pérez Viticultor

Borja Pérez Viticultor

Ever since he took charge of the family business back in 2011, Borja Pérez has had a clear idea of what he wants to base his Tenerife winemaking project on: volcanic soils, Atlantic climate, and local varieties. His wines are nimble on the palate, without excessive wood. They are the result of sustainable and biodynamic vine-growing aimed at bringing long forgotten or misunderstood local vines back to life. Borja owns about 6 hectares of vines and also rents land from local...

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