THE WINES OF GRAN CANARIA
The wines of Gran Canaria are unique. A singularity resulting from the environmental conditions imposed by the location of the vineyards: climate, soil and altitude.
Thus, we can feel the volcanic character of the wines made with grapes from vineyards located on steep slopes with picón soils, which benefit from the goodness of the trade winds; or note the differentiated character of the wines from vineyards located on the southwest slope, on the leeward side, in the hard, arid and basaltic soils typical of the geologically oldest part of the island.
A diversity of locations which, combined with the different cultivation systems and other agricultural practices in which tradition and innovation coexist, result in a diversity of vineyard landscapes to be discovered.
These are eminently manual agricultural practices, with harvests that last up to four months due to the island’s microclimates and the different ripening points of the different grape varieties that make up the Canary Islands’ immense wine-growing heritage.
These varieties come from ungrafted vines: a practice that makes the Canary Islands’ viticulture unique, as the Canary Islands are one of the four regions in the world whose vineyards were not affected by the phylloxera plague. This circumstance has made possible the survival and conservation of varieties that became extinct in their place of origin and that have survived over time to the point of being able to speak of indigenous varieties.
Varieties that speak of the place where they come from, of old vines that have seen the passage of time and that bear witness to all the stories that have been told around a good glass of wine from our land.
Wines with an Atlantic soul, which translates into a marked saline sensation on the palate, with aromas of flowers and white fruits, citrus and tropical fruits, with aniseed notes, which make them fresh and light wines, almost always young and with good aromatic intensity; while the reds are dominated by aromas of red and black fruits, blue flowers such as lavender and violet, and spices, being well structured wines.
Wines which, in short, speak of our singularity, identity and tradition, and which contain unique nuances and notes capable of transporting you to the island of Gran Canaria.

Francisco Torres (1935) Photographic collection of FEDAC