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Tenerife’s Volcanic Vines

Tenerife’s Volcanic Vines

Exploring the wines of this most rugged of outcrops

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Jun 14, 2025
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By Katy Severson

Illustration by Harriet Yakub

Wine from the Canary Islands simply has a way about it. Shakespeare wrote that Canarian Malmsey – an ancient fortified wine akin to Madeira – was an ‘absolutely penetrating wine’ which ‘perfumed the blood’. Robert Louis Stevenson and Herman Melville loved it too. And I have to say I vehemently agree with them…

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