SuertesdelMarqués‘LosPasitos’2022

<p>Leading Tenerife’s vinous renaissance for the past two decades, Suertes del Marqués is crafting some of Spain’s most exciting wines today.</p><p>Buying up vineyards and selling most of his crop to local domaines in 1986, Francisco García Lima only started producing wine commercially from 2006. As he introduced organic, low-interventionist philosophies and his son Jonatan took over the 9ha estate in 2016, Suertes del Marqués has become ground zero for a new wave of Tenerife fine wine.</p><p>Jonatan farms 9ha of indigenous old-vine varieties – some more than 200 years old – on volcanic clay and sand soils in the steep Orotova Valley, an appellation where cloud cover moderates temperatures by some 10°C compared to the rest of the island. Trained with a rare technique called cordón trenzado, the long vine canes are painstakingly tied back to their sinewy roots after pruning, then propped off the floor with poles.</p><p>A blend of single-vineyard Baboso Negro (Alfrocheiro Preto) and 5% Sumoll (Vijariego Negro) from vines at 380-440m. Fermented with whole clusters and aged for 10 months in 500-litre oak barrels. Herbal, spicy cranberry fruit and elegant tannins – effortless.</p>