Bien de Altura Sansofi 2022

Carmelo Peña started his personal project Bien de Altura in 2017 with the idea of recovering old vines planted in the mountains of Gran Canaria. As the name suggests - Bien de Altura - the vineyards are between 1,100 and 1,460 metres above sea level. They are located in the northern part of the island and have the traditional way of planting different varieties mixed in each plot to mitigate possible problems, but which today confer a special charisma to all the wines.

Sansofi means ‘Welcome’ because it is the wine made from grapes from the first plot owned by Carmelo. Made mainly from Listán Negro (80%) with the rest from Listán Prieto and white varieties. Vines are more than 90 years old, from volcanic soils with picón (eroded volcanic stone), clay and sand, from a single plot at an altitude of 1,350 m above sea level. 

It is a wine that follows the line of Bien de Altura but as it is a parcel of land it has more structure and finesse than the labels. All the grapes are fermented with whole bunches (100% stems) in open barrels, with a prolonged maceration of about 35 days, with a subsequent ageing of one year in old 228 and 500 litre barrels.

A very limited production of 1,200 bottles in this vintage to which the Parker guide awarded 96 points!