Envinate Migan Tinto 2022

$45.99 on 6 or more bottles (code: 6saves2) 94+ pts Wine Advocate I tasted the bottled 2022 Migan, which was paler than the sample of 2023 I tasted next to it and also felt more reductive. Sixty-three percent of the wine was with lees in used 500- and 600-liter oak barrels, and the rest (from the Tío Luis plot) was kept with fine lees in a 4,200-liter concrete vat. It has 12% alcohol and is very volcanic, with clear reminiscences of pumice stone and lapilli ash but with the black peppercorns from Orotava also clearly there. It's a little lighter than the more complete 2023. 10,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2023. Vineyard From four parcels of 100+ year-old vines, all north-facing and trained in the traditional cordón trenzado at 500- 850m above sea level. - 100% Lístan Negro -  The grapes were destemmed and pressed then fermented spontaneously in concrete without temperature control. - The wine was racked into 2500L foudres and 350L barrels to rest and undergo mal