Althay · 2023
Casa Althay
Four tenths Listán Blanco give honey and dried hay over the volcanic salinity. Concentrated, with a long finish.
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Lanzarote
The island burned for six years.
About us
The island burned for six years.
Then they planted vines in the ash.
It barely rains. Nothing is irrigated. Each vine stands alone in a pit dug into the black ash, with a crescent wall of lava stone around it against the trade winds. The roots are ungrafted — the louse that laid waste to Europe’s vineyards never reached this far out into the Atlantic.
We found Lanzarote in 1967. A few years later, we were the ones who brought the first Norwegians there — to resorts the family had built itself. We have belonged here ever since. The wine was the last thing we brought home, and the wineries knew who we were long before we asked.
The eruption
1730–1736
A quarter of the island was buried. Three villages vanished.
The vines
Over 200 years
The oldest on the island still bear fruit, on their own roots
The family
Since 1967
We found the island before Norway knew it was there
Monrik Evenings
One table
Six to twelve guests. A limited number of evenings.
La Geria · One pit, one vine
The island
A place that has no business growing wine.
When Timanfaya erupted in the 1730s, the best soil on Lanzarote disappeared beneath a layer of black picón. Those who stayed did the only thing they could: they dug pits down to the earth below, set one vine in each, and built a crescent of dry stone around it to break the trade wind.
It almost never rains. The vine lives on the moisture the ash holds through the night and gives back at sunrise. Nothing here can be mechanised — every grape is picked by hand, and a hectare yields a fraction of what the same hectare gives on the mainland. Which is why the bottles are few.
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The selection
The full selection
A few wines, from three wineries with little in common but the island.
Althay · 2023
El Grifo · 2022
Malvasía Volcánica Brut Nature
Traditional method, several years on the lees before disgorgement. No dosage at all.
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Bodegas Bermejo · 2023
Listán Rosado
Pale salmon, full of strawberry and raspberry, with a mineral finish that pulls it back down to earth.
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“We buy little, from a few wineries, and do the rest ourselves.”
Monica & Henrik · Monrik Wines
Monrik Evenings
One table, six to twelve chairs, and the whole island.
6–12 guests around one table · the tasting runs about two and a half hours
We hold a limited number of private evenings in our own showroom. You are the only people at the table. We present the wines, tell the story from 1967, and serve small plates through the evening. Lounge music low in the background, the lights turned down.
No two evenings are quite the same. Everything is built around what you want — how many wines, how deep we go, how long it lasts.
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The showroom · The table set for eight
The producers
Meet the producers
Three wineries on one island, and no two alike.
Althay
Young and uncompromising. A few thousand bottles a year from old ungrafted vines, spontaneously fermented.
El Grifo
Founded in 1775 and one of the ten oldest wineries in Spain, still in family hands, in the middle of La Geria.
Bodegas Bermejo
Precision and salt. Malvasía and Listán Negro from the plots nearest the coast, where the sea sits in the wine.
For restaurants and wine bars
The wines are on tables we have chosen ourselves.
National distribution through Nordic Beverage Solution, with a warehouse in Vestby. Get in touch for a price list, sample bottles or a visit — we are glad to come to you with the bottles.
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For those who would rather taste
At Vinmonopolet, or at our table.
Viticultores 2024 and El Grifo Lías 2023 entered Vinmonopolet’s standard range in the summer of 2026. The rest of the range is available to order. If you would rather taste the full range in one evening, we will set the table.
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