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Island Wines Summit will meet in Tenerife, of the 21 al 23 of June, to great sumillers, oenologists and winemakers to vindicate island wine
Tenerife will become 21 al 23 of June meeting point for a rare conversation, but increasingly necessary: that of island wine as a category with its own voice on the international map. The island will host the first edition of Island Wines Summit, a global summit designed to vindicate the uniqueness of island wines and bring together some of the most influential figures in sommelier, oenology and wine dissemination.
the congress, powered by Vocento Gastronomy, with the Tenerife Council y Tourism of Tenerife as institutional promoters and the collaboration of Tenerife wines, will propose master classes for three days, round tables, tastings and debates around a central idea: The islands not only produce different wines, but they offer a particular way of understanding the territory, the weather, culture and the relationship between vineyard and landscape.
The event will bring together top international names in Tenerife such as Josep Roca, sommelier at El Celler de Can Roca; Peace Levinson, executive sommelier at Anne-Sophie Pic restaurant; Pascaline Lepeltier, Master Sommelier and Beverage Director at Chambers, New York; y Matteo Montone, Master Sommelier and wine director of the Estelle group, in London. Winemakers will join them, oenologists and specialists capable of reading wine from science, the room, the land and memory.
Island Wines Summit will not limit itself to looking towards Tenerife. Their program will address wines from other island territories such as Cyprus, Creta, Sicily, Sardinia and the Azores, tracing a dialogue between Atlantic and Mediterranean islands that share isolation, physical limits, unique soils, own varieties and an intense relationship with the sea. In that conversation figures like Antonio Maçanita, from the Azores; Aimilios Andrei, of Crete; Yiannis Kyriakidis, from Cyprus; Simone Sedilesu, from Sardinia; y Andrea Foti, from the slopes of Etna, in Sicily.
The inauguration will have a strong symbolic component with a special tasting led by Josep Roca, that will address the relationship between the islands, its wines and the sea. An especially appropriate view to open a congress in which insularity will not be treated as a simple geographical circumstance, but as a cultural condition, climatic and sensory capable of marking the character of a wine.
The program will continue with different approaches to island wine. Pascaline Lepeltier will offer an international vision supported by her experience with organic viticulture, biodynamic and natural, In addition to his work at the head of a letter with more than 2.000 references. Matteo Montone will focus his intervention on sweet island wines, while Paz Levinson will participate in a tasting-debate on Atlantic wines with Antônio Maçanita, Jonatan García Lima, from Luck of the Marquis, y Roberto Santana, from Envínate, two essential names to understand the new projection of Tenerife and Canarian wine.
There will also be space for avant-garde Mediterranean wines, with producers from Cyprus, Creta, Sardinia and Sicily, territories where the vineyard dialogues with volcanic soils, historical varieties, altitudes, drought, tradition and new forms of oenological interpretation. This comparative view will allow Tenerife to be placed within a large family of wine islands that have learned to turn difficulty into identity..
The summit will also incorporate voices such as that of the journalist and popularizer Jamie Goode, doctor in plant biology and founder of wineanorak.com, that will address minerality as one of the great questions of contemporary wine. will also participate François Chartier, harmony creator and founder of Chartier World Lab, that will provide a sensory and scientific reading of this concept that is so invoked and discussed in the language of wine..
One of the most unique elements of the congress will be the election of the first Guardian of Tenerife Wine, a recognition that will distinguish a sommelier called to act as an international ambassador of the island's wines. The objective is to reinforce the foreign presence of Tenerife in high sommelier and put in the hands of a qualified prescriber the task of telling the world the richness of its wines., their names, its varieties and its landscapes.
The selection will be made by a jury made up of international sommeliers., Cabildo experts, island wine specialists, viticulturists and producers of Tenerife. The name of the winner will be announced during the second day of the congress, in a gesture that seeks to convert the promotion of Tenerife wine into a continuous strategy and not a specific action.
Island Wines Summit arrives at a time when wines from Tenerife and the Canary Islands have gained visibility on menus, contests and specialized forums. Its viticulture, marked by volcanic soils, extreme altitudes, prephylloxeric varieties, microclimates and an agrarian history of enormous uniqueness, fits with many of the current concerns of wine: authenticity, territory, diversity, human scale and story.
The summit will allow this conversation to be placed in an international context. Tenerife will not only be a host, but argument: an island where wine explains the landscape, memory, agricultural effort and tourism projection. At a time when the market is looking for wines with a recognizable identity, The Island Wines Summit presents one clear thesis: The islands are not the periphery of wine, but one of its most fascinating territories.
