Bodegas Los Bermejos, Lanzarote DO (Canary Islands, Spain) Listán Negro 2018

 Flavors of juicy black and red cherries mingle with notes of vanilla and a touch of smoke.   It is medium bodied with crisp acidity to balance the luscious fruit and finishes with ripe tannins.  The red grape variety Listán Negro is indigenous to the Canary Islands.  It is sometime confused with Listán Prieto from Castilla-La Mancha. That is the grape the Spanish monks  brought to the New World to plant in the missions they established in Mexico, Texas and California where it was called the Mission grape.