Barcelona enjoys the aroma of Canary wine

A total of 28 wineries from eight Protected Designations of Origin (DOP) of wines from the archipelago participate until 5 de febrero en la quinta edición de Barcelona Wine Week (BWW), el evento profesional que anualmente reúne a las mejores elaboraciones españolas en el Recinto Ferial de Montjuic. Esta cita referente para el sector vitivinícola abarca un espacio de 9.500 metros cuadrados en el que se distribuirán 1.100 expositores bajo el distintivo de más de 75 sellos de calidad y a lo largo de tres días prevé reunir a cerca de 24.000 visitors, entre ellos más de 700 compradores internacionales.

En la jornada inaugural de este lunes el ministro de Agricultura, Fishing and food, Luis Planas, visitó de la mano del director del director del ICCA, Luis Arraez Guadalupe, el módulo expositivo principal de los vinos que, in this edition 2025, representan a Canary Islands. Entre ellos se encuentran las elaboraciones de El Lomo Wineries, Piedra Fluida, Linaje del Pago y Atrevino (DOP Canary Islands); Bodegas Arautava, Tafuriaste, Vinos Atlante, 300 Líos Volcanic Grapes y Chivita (DOP Valle de la Orotava); Bodega Montoro y Vino Niray (Dop La Gomera), Vinos Vega Norte, Tendal y Mil7ochentaynueve (Dop the palm tree); Los Bermejos Wineries, La Geria, Volcano, The tap, Rash, Titerok-Akaet y Althay (PDO Lanzarote); Ocampo, Winery Burgman Tenerife, Loher (Dop Tacoronte-Icentejo); Viña Gómez, Los Loros, Bodega Hermanos Mesa (Güímar Valley DOP); y Vento (DOP Abona).

Con el objetivo de dar a conocer las elaboraciones canarias en este escaparate mundial, the Canarian Institute of Agri-Food Quality (ICCA), Autonomous Agency assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle raising, Fisheries and Food Sovereignty of the Government of the Canary Islands, ha gestionado tanto el transporte e inscripción de estas producciones como el diseño y creación de dos espacios con una superficie total de 116 Square meters, en colaboración con la empresa pública Proexca. Para Proexca es esencial la promoción exterior en el mercado internacional, incluyendo península, de las empresas canarias en aras de su crecimiento. La potencialidad del sector vitivinícola canario es un hecho y desde el área de Promoción Exterior se trabaja para que se conozca y aumenten las vías de comercialización.

This way, las bodegas canarias contarán con un área principal de 112 metros cuadrados expositivos en el Pabellón 8, donde se ubicarán la mayor parte de los vinos de las islas bajo el paraguas de la DOP correspondiente, así como un pequeño módulo adicional, como novedad esta edición, of 4 metros cuadrados en la Zona Collective.

In this sense, Luis Arraez Guadalupe, celebró el “incremento en la representación canaria desde la veintena de bodegas que participaron en la edición anterior hasta las 28 que estarán presentes este año en la feria, “a platform to show the quality and uniqueness of our wines to international operators that offers new business opportunities”. “These productions, as an emblem of the agri-food products of differentiated quality of the archipelago, “They must have the representation they deserve under the support of the Canary Islands Executive”, added.

In addition to the management staff and the ICCA Development and Promotion service, the Canarian delegation present in Barcelona Wine Week It will be made up of representatives of Rural Environment Management (GMR Canarias), public entity that markets the brands of more than 70 canarian wineries, to provide support to winemakers in the search for new opportunities within the export promotion strategy, basic for the development of the sector.

Apart from the importance of this event as a commercial meeting, The BWW is also configured as a forum for exposing new developments and analyzing the challenges and opportunities of the wine sector through an extensive program with more than 70 activities, like tastings, presentations and round tables. They will analyze the dominant trends in international markets., some of special relevance for the Canary Islands, like wine tourism, the commitment to sustainability or digitalization, in an edition that, besides, will revolve around the theme of old vines and their value as historical heritage that differentiates viticulture.

In this line, the ICCA in collaboration with the Research Center, Study, Safeguard, Coordination and Valorization of Mountain Viticulture (DEER) will offer a tasting titled 'A variety, a wine, an island. Tour of the Canary Islands, which will be directed by the vice president of CERVIM, Manuel Capote, together with the ICCA technician, José Luis González, in which participants will be offered a trip through some of the emblematic varieties of the Canary Islands, among them the oldest strains that provide distinctive features to the archipelago's productions.

Through this free action, which will take place on Wednesday 5, at 15.00 hours, in the Tasting Area of the Pavilion 1, Attendees will have the opportunity to taste the nuances of the characteristic varieties of the islands through a selection of the award-winning wines in both the Agrocanarias Wine Competitions, organized annually by the ICCA, like the winners in the CERVIM World Extreme Wines, that distinguishes the preparations from heroic viticulture.

Besides, El Grifo Wineries (Lanzarote) participated this morning in the action “Pre-phylloxera strains, “Indelible Heritage”, by the winemaker and technical director of said Canarian company, Elisa Ludeña, together with the winegrowers Javier Sanz and Manuel Méndez (Gerardo Méndez Wineries) and the specialized journalist and sommelier Ruth Troyano. Besides, Love Lopez, founder of Bodega eruption (Lanzarote) together with other Spanish winemakers, she offered a tasting on the author's wines. A sensory experience that linked history, terroir and authenticity of the main national DOP with the elaborations signed by professionals and explained by themselves