SEMIDULCE COLECCIÓN
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César Manrique's favourite wine. Lanzarote's most celebrated artist knew it by taste alone, and designed his own label for it — a clear sign that something about this wine was different.
Made from pre-phylloxera Malvasía Volcánica vines grown in volcanic soil, its sweetness contains no added sugar: it is the grape's own natural sugar, arrested at the precise point of balance with the variety's characteristic acidity.
VARIETY
Malvasía Volcánica
COLOUR
Straw yellow with steely tones
NOSE
Varietal, with notes of white fruits, pineapple and a floral finish
PALATE
Friendly, smooth and fresh, with an acidity well balanced with sweetness, fruity and broad
Tasting notes:
Pale yellow with golden highlights, this semi-sweet Malvasía displays aromas of tropical fruits and white flowers, with a subtle mineral touch. On the palate, it balances sweetness and acidity with freshness and notes of molasses and fruit, leaving a lingering aftertaste.
Elaboration:
This Semidulce Malvasía is produced in conjunction with our Seco Colección. The process begins with grape selection in El Grifo's own plots and at our winegrowers', where we select the highest quality grapes. In the 2023 vintage, the grapes were picked on July 20, 2023. The bunches are transported to the winery in vintage boxes, weighing no more than 20 kg, to ensure they arrive in the best condition. They are kept at low temperatures for 24 hours and then pressed. The resulting must, after a 24-hour static settling, is inoculated with selected native yeasts, which have been previously isolated. When the must's sugars reach 20-25 g/l, fermentation is interrupted by rapid cooling, followed by filtering and stabilization.
Technical data:
%Vol.13% | Sugar 23 g/L | Total Acidity 6.71 g/L | pH 3.27 | Total SO2 74 mg/L
Lanzarote, 1775
VOLCANO HERITAGE
Fire, wind and rock create extreme conditions from which wines with a marked character and personality are born, with which we discover the soul of a land and climate unique in the world.