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Vino de parcela. Candio is a single vineyard wine from El Barranco and is home to Suertes’s oldest Listán Negro (planted el córdon trenzado) vines. Winemaker Jonatan García estimates the vineyard’s oldest vines are up to 150 years of age, making the parcels of 80-year-old vines look young by comparison. The second idiosyncrasy is the soil, which has volcanic rock covered by a band of clay. Although the grapes are destemmed, 50% of the stems are added back to the juice, and after a long, warm ferment in concrete, the wine matures for 11 months in French oak demi-muids and large foudre. Bottled unfiltered.
This is one of García's more premium reds–intense and spicy with a lifted perfume of dark inky fruit and earthy depth. There’s plenty of intensity and character and overall, this wine is bright from start to finish. It’s a fine example of why Jane Anson has described Jonatan García as “…a man who has made the wines of Tenerife part of the late-night conversation of sommeliers worldwide”.