Diego

Diego is a heritage white varietal of the Canary Islands, planted by ten of Lanzarote's fifteen bodegas and worked in the same lapilli soils as Malvasía Volcánica. The grape produces whites of bright acidity and lighter weight than Malvasía — more orchard-fruit, less tropical-saline — and is often vinified on its own as a transparent house white or blended into broader Canarian field cuvées. Like the other Lanzarote whites, Diego vines are ungrafted on the island's Phylloxera-free volcanic terrain, planted one per zoco or grouped in the chabocos drystone enclosures around La Geria. Its presence on the island goes back to the era of the post-eruption replantings, when growers diversified holdings to spread weather and harvest risk.