April 4, 2024 - I finally found a way to sufficiently aerate Envinate. See photo!
After 5 hours like this we melted the astringent, rubbery reduction, leaving a boundary of stone under which lived a pulsating core of crystalline red fruit.
March 13, 2024 - Very interesting wine from the Canary Islands. Very tobacco, earthy and ash like in texture and on the nose this wine took about an hour to open and soften up. When it did there were layers of flavor and richness that wasn't there at the beginning. Nice medium finish. Enjoyable
October 25, 2023 - Came last in a tasting of 12 Canary Islands wines. It had a rotten character that softened later, but was graphically described by a taster as "if an animal had died". Nose had same unattractive quality, maybe a hint of petroleum.
May 22, 2023 - A little less expressive and joyous cf the previous bottle. A little more reductive. Good peppery red fruit with crunch and lift. Bright. ***1/2
May 3, 2023 - Gorgeous stuff. Bright light ruby, really vibrant. Lifted mid red fruit with a good dose of cracked black pepper. Light and very drinkable without being inconsequential. Well maybe a little, but only because something this joyful and yet serious seems a little incongruous. The sort of wine that modern Beaujolais should wish it had grown up to be. Balletic with a cheeky smile. The wine, not me. ****
August 25, 2022 - Elegant volcanic notes. Pretty and unique wine.
August 13, 2022 - Une bouteille au fruit un peu chimique et souffré qui me laisse perplexe, ne m'apparait pas défectueuse mais en toute humilité, je suis incapable d'être catégorique. À revisiter bientôt.
April 1, 2022 - Light ruby red, medium+ intensity on the nose with pure red currant, some barnyard smell that quickly blew off, ash, slate, rose petals and something I would describe as the smell of ozon in the air after spring rain. Medium- tannins, medium- body, long finish. Looking forward to see how this will age
March 17, 2022 - Delightful clear and fresh fragrance on the nose with red berry fruits, rose hips. Plus a little reductive "stinker" of burnt rubber, fresh earth and wet pumice. The palate is wonderfully fresh, clear and with great aromatic depth. Medium, tight body, very clear and precise, with sparse minerality, lively acidity, cherry pit flavors, red fruits, some white pepper and always that great volcanic stone minerality. Finishes very pure, with a wonderful blend of fine red fruits and a stony volcanic minerality. Remains long on the palate.
February 6, 2022 - Opened on Wednesday night to take to an event on Thursday. Gorgeous, light color, Burgundy-ish. Re-tasted Thursday morning. Oof--astringent, fruitless. Took something else to the event, and came back to this on Friday night when the fruit had filled out but it seemed both screechy and jammy--I know, opposites. We didn't bother to finish the bottle.