Lanzarote - Volcanic Vineyards – Part III
Our final cellar visit on the island was with Amor Lopez at the appropriately named Bodega Erupción. Eliza had been working in quite a different field, namely biotechnology, in Madrid but came back to the island during lockdown and started working with her father, Marcial, in 2021. He had started their cellar in 1982. She is very proud that she is a fourth generation winemaker, a seventh generation grape farmer and the first woman in the family to work in a winery. You sense that she is gently changing some of her father’s practices. He used to use old chestnut barrels, whereas she is not keen on wood and uses it as little as possible. She has introduced temperature control and also increased the capacity of the winery. She favours making wines from specific plots and also likes lees ageing. They have a total of five hectares and do all the work themselves. ...
