From the 30th of June, two of the best wine cellars of Lanzarote, El Grifo and Stratvs will have presence on the main pages of Lanzarote.com in three different languages.
Thanks to the collaboration of these cellars and th DO Regulatory Council of Lanzarote, Lanzarote.com will be giving a box with two bottles of wine from Lanzarote and advertisement of each of the cellars for all the hotels reservations made for the summer season, with the requirement that the reservation are for a minimum stay of one week. Also, Lanzarote,com will be giving a free trip to the Teguise Market to the members of each reservation.
From June 30, two of the major wineries in Lanzarote, the tap and Stratvs will have presence on the home page Lanzarote.com in three languages. Thanks to the collaboration of these wineries and the DO Regulatory Council of Lanzarote, Lanzarote.com giving away a box with two bottles of wine from Lanzarote and advertising of wine each hotel booking for the summer period, with a requirement that this reservation is for a minimum period of one week. Besides giving away free trips to Lanzarote.com Teguise Market to the members of each reservation.

This promotion will be announce on the 30th of June 2011 and will be valid while wine stocks last, which we feel that this promotion will be visible for a week time, as this is being exposed to about 70.000 users of Lanzarote.com

From Lanzarote.com, we encourage wine cellars to join a similar new promotional campaigns, making a direct relation between tourism and gastronomy of Lanzarote, you can contact us on info@lanzarote.com or calling us on 928 593 003.

Last Saturday 4th June, some 1,500 people gathered in the luxury port of the Marina Rubicón to celebrate the new Food & Wine festival. During the five hours of the festival more than 4,000 samples of Lanzarote’s excellent Denomination of origin wines and tasty tapas were served to an extremely appreciative public.

The figures just go to show the success of the event which was organised by the Regulating Council of Lanzarote’s Denomination of Origin wines in conjunction with the Marina itself and the island Council’s “Savour the Flavour of Lanzarote” campaign and also with the support and collaboration of the Yaiza town hall and Lanzarote Chamber of Commerce.

The festival, which is the second of its kind to be celebrated on the island after last November’s festival in the marquee at Teguise, was held with the participation of eleven local wine producers; El Grifo, Guiguán, La Geria, Los Bermejos, Martinón, Reymar, Rubicón, Stratvs, Tierra de Volcanes, Vega de Yuco y Vulcano de Lanzarote and five restaurants; La Casa Roja, Casa Brígida, Lanis, El Maño and Afrodite.

Throughout the morning entertainment was provided by the lively sounds of a batucada percussion band, and there were several raffles in which the lucky winners won bottles of Denomination of Origin wines.

The Canarian El Grifo wine was the only Spanish wine to be awarded a prize at the 2011 World of Malvasia Wine Competition. This world-renowned competition, sponsored by the International Vine and Wine Organisation (OIV), took place recently in Croatia. The local Lanzarote-produced wine was given the third highest score in the competition, winning a total of 89.83 points.

The El Grifo wine with its delightfully strong aroma is both complex and persistent. It is a blend of traditional wines from three vintages; 1956, 1970 and 1997. This sweet malvasia was made using grapes which had been slightly ‘raisined’, that is allowed to dry whilst still on the vine then the fermentation process was halted by the addition of vinic alcohol.

It is the second time that a Canarian Malvasia wine has received such a high accolade in this International Malvasia Competition, after also receiving an award in 2009.

This is the third gold medal won so far this year by the El Grifo winery, a Lanzarote Denomination of Origin producer, in competitions held by the International Vine and Wine Organisation.

The Denomination of Origin wine “Amalia” made by the Bodegas Rubicón winery was awarded with a Diamond in the Dry White category, the highest distinction and equivalent of a golden medal in the Wine Women Awards which took place between the 1st and 8th of April in Madrid.

This international competition aims to “support all women” involved in the world of oenology and is open only to those wines “whose production and marketing has been carried out by a woman at least in equal share to men”.

Bodegas Rubicón, owned by Germán López, is run by his two daughters and therefore complies with the regulations of the competition which is open only to companies “whose important or influential” jobs are occupied by women.

Six of Lanzarote’s wineries (El Grifo, La Geria, Los Bermejos, Martinón, Stratvs and Vega de Yuco) will present their wines in Valencia and Madrid this week under the banner of “Savour the Flavour of Lanzarote” which forms part of the Lanzarote Cabildo’s (Inter-Island Council) promotional Food and Wine campaign.

The two workshops scheduled to take place are aimed at wine producers, wine sellers, product consultants, sommeliers and other professionals in the sector. The workshops in these two major cities will serve to open up new ways of promoting sales of Lanzarote Denomination of Origin wines on the Spanish mainland.

The first workshop will take place on Monday 4th April from 17.30 till 20.30 in the specialist venue Las Añadas de España (C/ Játiva, 3 de Valencia) and the second will be held on the 6th April at the same times but in the Salón Khemer room in the Urban hotel in Madrid. (C/ Carrera de San Jerónimo, 34).

Lanzarote Denomination of Origin wines will also be represented at Fuerteventura’s Agricultural and Livestock Fair (Feaga) which is taking place between the 7th and 10th April in the Granja Agrícola y Experimental farm in Pozo Negro.

The stand, run by Lanzarote Cabildo in collaboration with the island’s Chamber of Commerce, will showcase Lanzarote wines as well as other types of local produce as part of “Savour the Flavour of Lanzarote” campaign which is part of a broader plan to promote the island’s gastronomy and wines.

The 2010 grape harvest has produced some “excellent” Denomination of Origin wines according to the chairman of the Regulatory Board Javier Betancort at the presentation in the Bodegas Rubicon winery last Friday. More than a hundred people had the opportunity to taste and enjoy the most recent wines produced in Lanzarote.

It is only the third time in the 17 years since the Regulatory Board was created that Lanzarote Denomination of Origin wines have been awarded a rating of “excellent” by the tasting committee. The committee tasted a selection of twenty-five 2010 vintage wines, including ten dry malvasias, six semi-sweet whites, four rosés, three tinto joven reds, a sweet malvasia and a sweet muscatel.

Javier Betancort briefly went over the main facts and figures relating to the sector’s productivity in 2010; a year in which the grape yield barely reached a million and a half kilos – a million less than the average year, but nevertheless a year when sales increased by some 32% on the previous year. Some 1,930,869 back labels were supplied by the Regulatory Board to the 17 member wine producers so that each and every bottle could boast the distinctive logo identifying its quality as a Lanzarote Denomination of Origin wine.

The chairman of the Regulatory Board accredited the positive upturn to the joint action undertaken by the Canarian government, Lanzarote’s inter-island council, the Lanzarote Chamber of Commerce and the Regulatory Board itself, which have worked together to promote Lanzarote wines as a valuable marketing tool to attract quality tourism to the island.

The Cabildo’s Agriculture Councillor, Nereida Pérez, also addressed the presentation and thanked the efforts and collaboration of all those involved in the island’s wine producing sector. She also took the opportunity to underline the importance of the Food & Wine Plan promoted by the Cabildo which has contributed to the promotion of Lanzarote wines as a tourist attraction.

The presentation of the 2010 Vintage evaluation included speeches by wine experts Tomás Pérez (El Grifo vineyard), Alberti González (Stratvs vineyard) and Alejandro Felipe (La Geria vineyard) who summarized the qualities of the excellent white wines, rosés and red wines produced in Lanzarote this year.

Five hundred bottles of Grieta’s Dry Malvasia and another 500 of its 2010 Red will soon be wending their way to Japan, one of the world’s most discerning consumer markets. Lanzarote wine makers La Grieta, located in Punta Mujeres, produces regulated appellation wines that are classified as Designation of Origin “Lanzarote wines”.

The La Grieta wines have been picked up on by a prestigious importers of Spanish wines in Japan who sent a representative from their Barcelona office to visit winemakers Ricardo Socas and Sabina Leeuwenburg in Lanzarote last November. After sending a selection of wines to their head office in Japan for tasting, they were given the go-ahead to ship out 1,000 bottles which will be distributed in restaurants, hotels and bars in the capital Tokyo as well as the region of Kansai which includes the cities of Osaka, Kioto and Kobe.

On the 4th February at 7pm, Teguise’s Municipal Theatre opens its doors to “Lanzarote Tourism and Viticulture 2011″ – a course of informative and practical workshops organised by the Wines of Lanzarote Designation of Origin Control Board in association with the Friends of Wine Association, Lanzarote Cheese and the José Clavijo and Fajardo Foundation.

The inaugural session kicks off with a talk about how the Control Board works and the characteristics of the Designation of Origin Wines of Lanzarote given by the president of this organisation, Javier Betancort. This is followed by lawyer and co-owner of the Bodegas El Grifo vineyard, José Juan Otamendi, who will address the issue “Lanzarote Wines and Vineyards – an Uncertain Future”.

With the 100 places all but filled, the workshops are essentially aimed at students and people who work in the tourism sector, the hotel trade and restaurant industry. However, they are also open to any member of the public who may wish to sit in on them.

The workshops will take place over three different sessions, in February (pruning season), May (when the vines are checked and treated) and in July or August (time of the grape harvest). The first session ends on Saturday 5th February with a theoretical and practical activity on pruning and harvesting which will be given by agricultural engineer and wine expert Alberto González at the Bodegas Stratvs vineyard starting at 9.30 am. Once this activity is completed, delegates will have the opportunity to take part in a wine-tasting session.

The second session will take place on Saturday 7th May in the socio-cultural centre in Yé and will include a lecture given by the official chronicler of Haría, Gregorio Barreto, followed by a theoretical and practical activity in the area of the La Corona volcano directed by the owner of the Vega de Yuco vineyard and agricultural engineer, Rafael Espino. This second session will also end with wine-tasting in the social-cultural centre.

The date of the third session has yet to be confirmed, but will be held between July and August. The first part will cover the entire process of the grape harvest and the second part will be given by Orlando Ortega, owner of Lilium restaurant, who will talk about how wines are presented, kept and served.

The series of workshops on Lanzarote Tourism and Viticulture 2011 was initially to be held in Spínola Palace but owing to refurbishment work the venue has been changed to the Teguise Municipal Theatre.

As the lemon has such a low level of carbohydrate, it is of great help when losing weight. Eating lemon means taking in vitamin C without additional calories. It has an abundance of vitamin C which strengthens the body’s defences to avoid illness, particularly in the respiratory system – anything from simple catarrh, hoarseness, tonsilitis, to pneumonia, bronchitis, colds, flu, pleurisy, asthma, etc.

Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, has a great disinfectant strength and also has antitoxic action against microbial poisons and medication. Along with vitamin C, lemons also contain vitamin P which helps tone the blood vessels and capillaries.

This vitamin is also called the capillary permeability vitamin: without it the blood capillaries become fragile and may break easily, causing small haemorrhages.

It helps to heal all types of injuries when taken internally and applied externally.

Lemons are very rich in minerals particularly potassium, magnesium, calcium and phosphorous (they also contain sodium, iron and fluoride).

Potassium for example is an essential component for life and beneficial for the treatment of hypertension.

Lemons contain some B complex vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, PP).

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) prevents and cures the illness beriberi whose symptoms are paralysis, oedema and insufficient cardiac function. It is also involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates.

Vitamin PP (niacin) prevents pellagra or rough skin, an illness which shows itself through inflammation of the skin, poor digestion and mental disorders. This vitamin is vital to maintain the skin’s health, the digestive system and the nervous system.

It is a fruit which could be defined as medicinal par excellence as it contains healing properties for more than 150 illnesses.

In any part of the body where toxins are found, whether in the blood, the organs or the tissues, once ingested, the lemon goes to combat them, dissolving their accumulation and expelling them.
In cases of food poisoning from consuming bad food or a bad combination of food, or slow digestions and liver and gallbladder ailments, the lemon acts by returning the affected functions to normal, neutralising toxins and helping eliminate them.

It is the best protector against infectious illnesses.

In cases of fever it helps to eliminate it, oxidising and excreting toxins which have not been duly neutralised and eliminated, which the exception of rheumatic fever.

The lemon is good for cases of high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease as it stimulates the circulation. In cases of diabetes it helps to avoid complications related to the arteries.
It prevents kidney stones from forming and may even slowly dissolve them.

As with any other medication, its consumption is directly linked to the physical state of each person as it is a great aid to health yet its consumption must be restricted in use against particular conditions when it may not be recommended for sufferers of these ailments.

It is not recommended in cases of mineral and calcium deficiency, anaemia, rickets, fragile bones, gum inflammation, weak and rotten teeth, mouth and throat ulcers, a cracked tongue, wounds on the skin, the elderly or weak children, insomnia, acidosis, sensitivity to acids, chronic constipation, inflammation of the prostate, inflammation of the uterus, bladder or oesophagus, while menstruating, nervous disorders.

There are numerous fruits which have similar characteristics to the lemon within citrus fruits, such as pomelos, limes and grapefruit.

The amount to take depends on each person and their biological constitution. For example, people with a strong constitution can tolerate more than the elderly and children, people who are obese more than slim people, and is taken better in summer than in winter as the cold slows its elimination through the skin.

Depending on these factors, anything from small amounts of juice to half a lemon may be taken and those who are able to tolerate it may take the juice of up to three lemons daily.

The lemon is the champion among healing and preventative fruits and a great provider of vitamins, as it is a great eliminator of toxins and a powerful bactericide.

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