The Wine Merchant Top 100 - Red Wine Trophy Winner 2024

"A “heart-stoppingly beautiful” wine from Atlantic Tenerife drawing the attention of the Top 100 judges, who made it a clear winner of the 2024 Red Wine Trophy.
A 100% Negramoll, it’s the work of Bodegas Viñátigo, which has been a key player in the modern revival of Tenerife’s remarkable vinous heritage since it was founded in the 1990s. Produced from fruit sourced from ungrafted Negramoll vines in a vineyard in north west Tenerife with a marked ocean-influence at less than 200m altitude, the wine is fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged for six months in French oak.
“Just a beautiful wine: haunting and perfumed, pale and elegant but full of distinctive flavours – red fruits and some sweet spicing,” the judges said. “It’s exactly the sort of wine you want to find in a competition like this.”