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Tenerife will host 21 al 23 the Junio Island Wine Summit, an international conference dedicated to wines born in island territories
Tenerife will become 21 al 23 of June in the international epicenter of island wine with the celebration of Island Wine Summit 2026, a congress that will bring together winemakers, sommeliers, producers, Masters of Wine, specialized journalists and gastronomy professionals from different island territories around the world.
The meeting, organized by Madrid Fusion Foods from Spain y Vocento Gastronomy, has the Cabildo of Tenerife, Tenerife Tourism and the brand Tenerife Awakens Emotions as institutional promoters, In addition to the collaboration of Tenerife wines.
The event was born with an international vocation and with a clear idea: placing island wines at the center of the contemporary conversation about territory, identity, sustainability and differentiation. In the case of Tenerife, The congress also represents an opportunity to reinforce the value of its volcanic wines, its pre-phylloxera varieties and its five designations of origin.
Volcano, ocean and insularity
The program will revolve around three main axes: volcanoes, ocean and insularity. Presentations will be articulated from them., master tastings, analysis of terroirs and professional meetings aimed at both winemakers and sommeliers, gastronomy prescribers and professionals.
The vice president of the Cabildo and Minister of Tourism, Lope Afonso, He stressed that the celebration of the congress represents a boost to the external projection of Tenerife and allows the island's brand to be associated with values such as excellence, sustainability and authenticity.
The CEO of Tourism of Tenerife, Dimple Map, He highlighted that the Island Wine Summit represents an opportunity to connect the island with major international prescribers., at a time of growing interest in volcanic wines and productions linked to the territory.
Also the insular counselor of the Primary Sector, Valentín González, He emphasized the value of the congress for the Tenerife countryside. As he defended, The event will make it possible to vindicate the work of the winegrowers and the exceptional agricultural heritage that sustains the personality of the island's wines..
Great voices of world wine
Among the first confirmed names are Jamie Goode, one of the most influential voices in specialized journalism; Pascaline Lepeltier, international reference in sommelier and biodynamics; y Fernando Mora MW, one of the Spanish Masters of Wine with the greatest projection.
All of them will address the challenges and opportunities of wines produced on islands, where factors such as volcanic origin, the altitude, salinity, Atlantic winds and native varieties generate unique profiles that are difficult to replicate.
Island Wine Summit is thus proposed as a professional platform to share knowledge, strengthen commercial networks and project the identity of island wines to the world.
Tenerife, Agastronomic destination
The celebration of the congress reinforces the positioning of Tenerife as a reference food and wine destination. In recent years, the island has managed to attract the attention of restaurants, sommeliers and prescribers thanks to the personality of its wines, to the work of its wineries and a viticulture marked by the volcanic landscape.
The meeting arrives, besides, after a day held last November at the Iberostar Heritage Grand Mencey Hotel, which functioned as a prelude to this first official edition. That event allowed us to measure the interest in island wines and anticipated the scope of a project that now seeks to consolidate itself as the great international forum dedicated to island viticulture..
Con Island Wine Summit 2026, Tenerife aspires to occupy a prominent place on the global map of contemporary wine. Not only as a producing territory, but as a setting for reflection on the future of wines born between volcanoes, ocean and atlantic landscape.
