Suertes del Marques

Founded in 2006 by Jonatan Garcia Lima in Valle de la Orotava, on the cooler north face of Tenerife. His father started the transition from selling grapes to bottling in 2005; Garcia Lima eventually left his factory management job to run the winery full-time. The estate now manages around 26 hectares total (11 owned, 15 from partner growers), with vineyards on steep volcanic slopes at 400-700 metres elevation.

The vines are phylloxera-free, ungrafted, and ancient - some 200-250 years old, with an average age across the valley of 100 years. They are trained using the traditional cordon trenzado system, where shoots are braided horizontally up to 15-20 feet from the trunk. Garcia Lima considers this "a worldwide wine heritage." Grape varieties are indigenous: Listan Negro, Castellana Negra, Vijariego Negro, Baboso Negro, and Malvasia Rosada for reds (roughly 80%); Listan Blanco and Torrontes for whites (roughly 20%). Farming is organic. Vinification uses indigenous yeasts, neutral large oak, minimal racking, low sulfite, and individual plot vinification - "terroir should show more than method." Key wines include 7 Fuentes, Trenzado, La Solana, Medianias, and Vidonia. Exports 90% of production; credited with putting premium Tenerife wines on the global fine wine map.