Bodegas Timanfaya

Founded in 1999 by the Canarian enologist Alberto González Plasencia, the winery sits inside a cave hewn from the lava and ash that the Timanfaya eruptions of 1730 to 1736 laid down across central Lanzarote.

The cellar is in Mácher, in the municipality of Tías; the vines are tended in La Geria, some of them ungrafted stock more than two centuries old. Bodegas Timanfaya was the seventh winery admitted to the D.O. Lanzarote and is credited with launching the island's first commercial red, Cenizas del Timanfaya, made from Tinta Conejera and Listán Negro. Production is deliberately small — a few thousand bottles a year — with no filtration, fining or sulphur additions, and labels printed onto volcanic ash. A reserve sweet Moscatel from the 1999 vintage, aged in the Cueva de Lorenzo on the property, has carried multiple national and international awards including the Zarcillo de Bronce and the Bacchus de Oro.