Malvasía Volcánica

Malvasía Volcánica is the signature white grape of Lanzarote — an ungrafted heritage strain that Phylloxera never touched, grown by every one of the island's fifteen bodegas. The vines are planted one per zoco: shallow basalt-walled pits hand-dug into the lapilli that the 1730–1736 Timanfaya eruptions deposited across La Geria and Tinajo. From the same grape come dry whites with marked salinity, off-dry and semi-sweet styles, sparkling wines made in the método ancestral, and the rare sweet Canari that once shipped to Shakespeare's England. Distinct from Madeira's Malvasia and from continental Malvasía family members, the Lanzarote variant has adapted across two and a half centuries of continuous cultivation in volcanic conditions that exist almost nowhere else on earth.