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The sommelier from El Celler de Can Roca inaugurated the Island Wines Summit at the Taoro Hotel before 200 professionals with an island wine tasting
Josep Roca, sommelier El Celler de Can Roca, inaugurated in Tenerife he Island Wines Summit with a master tasting dedicated to wines from islands around the world. The meeting, held in the Auditorium of the Taoro Hotel, in Puerto de la Cruz, brought together more than 200 international professionals, between sumilleres, winemakers and Masters of Wine.
With a slow intervention, poetic and loaded with cultural references, Roca defended island wine as an expression of landscape, history and emotion. “Emotions interfere with the quality of wine”, he stated during a session in which he claimed the islands as territories of light, exchange, resistance and viticultural knowledge.
The tasting included eight wines from island enclaves such as France, Madeira, Azores, Greece, Tenerife, Mallorca, England and Türkiye. Among them was Vidonia 2016, of Luck of the Marquis, a Tenerife white that Roca presented as an example of depth, salinity, volcanic soil and storage capacity.
The sommelier closed his speech by appealing to sensitivity as an essential tool to understand wine. For Roca, each bottle is born from the dialogue between territory, nature, memory and emotion. An idea that fits with the spirit of Island Wines Summit, conceived as an international forum to disseminate the uniqueness of wines born on islands.
