In the latest edition of Madrid Fusión, Lanzarote wines have had a special role with their own space in the wine section. There, seven wineries from the island have presented wines through commented tastings.
The president of the Regulatory Council talks about this and the lack of water in an interview with the radio program Más de Uno Gourmet of Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
- What about this new experience of having your own space at Madrid Fusión?
The truth is that it has been very positive. We have seen a large number of people who have passed through this new space with which we wanted to give greater visibility to a product as sensitive as wine and that has always gone hand in hand with Saborea Lanzarote.
- Are you going to repeat the experience next year?
We hope it will be the first of many editions. It is the first step and we will refine it in future editions. We want Lanzarote wines to be in that market niche that we long for so much.
- Thanks to this new experience, have you been able to negotiate directly with restaurants in the peninsula?
Indeed, the profile of the public that comes to Madrid Fusión is looking for products that they are not normally used to seeing, or in the case of wine, to tasting, so it has been a very good tool to give visibility and close agreements in the future.
- A complicated harvest is expected, isn't it?
We come from a climatologically quite adverse year, especially because temperatures have been very high, there has been very little rain and the water that has fallen so far in 2025 has not yet served to alleviate the drought we are dragging.
We are going to cross our fingers and see how that new 2025 harvest comes. In April or May we will have a more approximate idea.
- How is the dialogue with the Cabildo regarding the water crisis?
We, as the Regulatory Council, have conveyed a thousand times that in order for Lanzarote agriculture to survive, we need water.
It is true that the Cabildo is getting to work, but we are still at a tricky start. The foundations are being laid so that in a few years there will be water both for the population that does not have it today, and for agriculture, but these are steps that are very slow.