ProducerRibeira Sacra
Envínate
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A quartet of winemakers crafting Atlantic-style wines across Tenerife, Galicia and Almansa.
An avant-garde project by four young winemakers, making minimalist wines in multiple Spanish regions including Ribeira Sacra, Tenerife, and Almansa from old indigenous varieties.
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Who Is This For?
For drinkers who want volcanic minerality and old-vine indigenous varieties from Spain's most exciting natural wine collective, without a single-region pigeonhole.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Who founded Envínate and when?
- Envínate was founded in 2005 by four friends — Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Ángel Martínez — who met while studying oenology at the University of Miguel Hernández in Alicante.
- Is Envínate based in a single wine region?
- No. Envínate is a genuinely multi-region project: Roberto Santana leads Táganan and Benje in Tenerife (Canary Islands), Alfonso Torrente leads Lousas in Ribeira Sacra (Galicia), and Laura Ramos with José Martínez lead Albahra in Almansa and a project in Extremadura. Tenerife accounts for just over half of their roughly 140,000-bottle annual production, making the Canary Islands their most representative base.
- What is Envínate's winemaking philosophy?
- Minimal intervention: no chemicals in the vineyard, hand-harvested fruit, foot-treading, spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, and varying proportions of whole-cluster fermentation, all aimed at transparently expressing each parcel's terroir.
- What grape varieties does Envínate work with?
- They focus on old-vine indigenous varieties such as Listán Negro, Listán Blanco (Palomino), Listán Prieto, Vijariego, Mencía, Moravia Agria, and Garnacha Tintorera, sourced from ancient, often ungrafted vineyards.
- Why is Envínate considered influential in Spanish wine?
- Envínate is widely credited as one of the driving forces behind the 'New Spanish Wine' movement, having revived interest in overlooked regions like the Canary Islands and Ribeira Sacra through precise, terroir-focused winemaking, earning international critical acclaim and cult status.