Canary Island native and well-known footballer, David Silva, has enlisted the pioneering Jonatan García as his winemaker on the pair’s new vineyard challenge, Bodegas Tamerán, on Silva’s house island of Gran Canaria. García additionally has a vineyard in Tenerife, Suertes del Marqués, and his mineral, genuine wines have helped put the Canary Islands on the world wine map.
‘Whereas David Silva was enjoying for Manchester Metropolis, he received in contact with me by social media to say congrats about one in all my wines from Suertes del Marqués that he was ingesting. We began a friendship and he advised that we begin a challenge collectively in Tenerife. However as Gran Canaria is his island, it appeared extra attention-grabbing to begin a challenge there. He discovered a property with vineyards, which I visited for him, and we began making wine there in 2020. I noticed that the grapes planted had been indigenous grapes from the island, so I used to be very . I’ve been a soccer fan all my life, and now I help his crew! I began as a Manchester Metropolis fan, and now I’m a Actual Sociedad fan. Tamerán is the unique title for the island of Gran Canaria, one thing that we recovered from books.
Bodegas Tamerán vineyard surrounded by its vineyards
‘David didn’t know a lot about wine years in the past, however he began to strive, purchase and examine wine, and now he’s a wine freak. He’s very concerned within the wines and within the challenge. We discuss on a regular basis, and he is aware of what’s occurring within the cellar. He selected to work with me as a result of he likes my fashion of wine. We now have the identical idea of the wines that we prefer to drink: clear white wines, very exact with acidity.
‘Gran Canaria as a winemaking space is just not that huge, in case you evaluate it to Tenerife the place I make my very own wines. The world below vine is half that of Valle de Orotava in Tenerife. It’s not been that common for making wine within the final century, although the very first vines planted within the Canary Islands had been in Gran Canaria! However extra persons are beginning to put money into planting new vineyards, so I feel the island goes to have huge growth within the subsequent few years.
‘At Bodegas Tamerán we’re making wines from single grape varieties which are very distinctive. I’m not making single-vineyard wines, as a result of the orientation and the altitude and the kind of soils should not altering, so it is senseless to make single winery wines, simply single grapes. Extra an idea of the brand new world. Not like at Suertes del Marqués, the place you will have a giant distinction between the orientations and the elevations.
‘We make 5 whites and one clarete. The whites are constructed from Vijariego Blanco, Baboso Blanco, Verdello, Malvasia Volcanica and Marmajuelo. The vines are ungrafted within the Canary Islands, which is principally a consequence of the isolation of the island in the course of the growth of phylloxera. One other result’s that the island has maintained vine coaching techniques and grape varieties that had been as soon as liable to disappearing by the expansion of negociants.
‘The grapes that I feel have parameters analytically which are very attention-grabbing are Baboso Blanco and Vijariego Blanco. However then I’ve been stunned by the standard of the Malvasia Volcanica too. Every classic I’m seeing that it’s good. But when I had to decide on, Baboso Blanco and Vijariego Blanco are those which have extra potential; let’s see within the subsequent few years.
‘We work organically within the vineyards, and it’s a bit simpler than it’s in Tenerife as we’re within the south of Gran Canaria and the local weather is drier. One other results of these heat south-facing vineyards is that Tamerán wines are far more fragrant. However they’re additionally recent. Generally they remind me of Ribeiro from Galicia. I harvest early, as a result of for me and David, one of the vital issues in white wine is the acidity, the feeling of freshness. The wines have a bit extra quantity, in order that’s why I attempt to keep away from malolactic fermentation, as a result of if not they’ll be too fats.
‘As for the long run, now we have a candy fortified wine on the playing cards constructed from Malvasia, and there’s additionally the potential to make a pink, however let’s see what is going to occur. The concept is for us to get growers on the island included in our challenge, like at Suertes. And if you would like outdated vines, you will have outdated vines. There may be nice potential nonetheless to develop within the islands.’
Jonatan García and David Silva within the cellar
5 Bodegas Tamerán wines to strive
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