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Viticultores 2024
Althay · Vintage 2024 · Standard range

Viticultores

This is the wine people come back for. Three varieties from old ungrafted vines, fermented on their own yeasts, with just enough weight to carry the saline dryness the island gives. It entered Vinmonopolet’s standard range in the summer of 2026.
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About the wine
Nose

Ripe yellow stone fruit and apple, with orange, blossom, a little nut, camphor and minerals.

Palate

Juicy, with a slightly unctuous texture and a saline edge of apple, orange, baked lemon, nut and spice.

Key facts
Vintage

2024

Grapes

Malvasía Volcánica 80%, Listán Blanco 10%, Diego 10%

Alcohol

13%

Producer

Althay

Region

Lanzarote, Canary Islands

Serving

10–12 °C in a slightly larger glass. It opens up after a few minutes.

Item no.

19488101

Range

Standard range

Price

Kr 399,00 · Vinmonopolet, incl. VAT

The craft

How it is made

  1. 01

    The vineyards

    Malvasía Volcánica, Listán Blanco and Diego are picked by hand from several vineyards, among them La Geria, Masdache and Tisalaya.

  2. 02

    The parcels

    Some parcels are pressed directly, others given a short maceration before pressing, depending on the condition of the fruit. The maceration is short and deliberate: it draws aroma and texture, not colour.

  3. 03

    Fermentation

    Fermented spontaneously on the natural yeasts from the fruit and the cellar, normally three to four weeks.

  4. 04

    Malolactic

    Some parcels go through malolactic fermentation, four to six weeks, while the rest keep their fresh malic acid. The wine gains both roundness and tension.

  5. 05

    Maturing

    The parcels are blended and rest about ten months on fine lees in stainless steel. That long contact builds texture and depth without any oak.

  6. 06

    Bottling

    Very gentle filtration — only what stability demands, never a hard polish. Made without the use of fining agents. About a year from harvest to bottling, twelve to fourteen months to market.

What sets it apart

Several grapes and several parcels, each handled separately, partial malolactic fermentation — and then ten months maturing together on the lees.

A young winery · Four wines

Althay

The other end of the island, and the other end of the thinking. A few thousand bottles a year from old ungrafted vines, fermented on their own yeasts and bottled after very gentle filtration. No safety net, and no attempt to make the wine easier than it is. Four wines: two white blends, a single-site Malvasía from a crater bowl, and the only red we carry.
About the producer
A hand in the picón on Althay’s land
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Casa Althay 2023
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Casa Althay

Four tenths Listán Blanco give honey and dried hay over the volcanic salinity. Concentrated, with a long finish.

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Caldera Tinasoria 2023
Vintage 2023

Caldera Tinasoria

Pure Malvasía Volcánica from a single crater site, spontaneously fermented and aged partly in steel, partly in cask. The most site-specific bottle we carry.

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Avelina 2023
Vintage 2023

Avelina

The only red we carry. Hand-destemmed, twenty days on skins, soft tannins and ash on the nose.

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