Winery: Suerte del Marqués
Región: D.O. Valle de la Orotava
Vintage: 2020
Bottle: 75cl
Grape Varieties: 90% Listán Negro and 10% Castellana Negra
Type: Red wine, partially oak-aged
Alcohol Content: 12.5% vol.
Serving Temperature: 16º-18ºC.
7 Fuentes is a vino de villa (village wine), sourced from hundred-year-old and young ungrafted vines from 35 different plots from different vinegrowers and from their own plots.
Production:
Harvested manually. Each plot is vinified separately and assembled before bottling. Fermented in small concrete and stainless-steel tanks with manual pigeage and working with indigenous yeasts.
The ageing takes place in 70% concrete tanks for 9 months and the rest in French oak barrels (Allier).
Tasting Notes:
Good complexity and depth, fresh fruit, cherry and cassis, pepper, and mineral notes. Excellent freshness and soft texture.
Notes: To be enjoyed over the next 4–5 years.
THE WINERY
Suerte del Marqués is a Canarian bodega located in the green valley of La Orotava, a well-known and beautiful vineyard area on the northern side of the island of Tenerife, at the foothills of the imposing volcano Mount Teide. Here, Jonatan Garcia Lima and his family have been producing their own wines since 2006, although the family has long been involved in wine-growing and selling their own grapes to other wineries.
Their estate has 11 hectares of vineyards on their property, which stretch from El Teide's lower slopes to 800 metres above sea level, growing on a diversity of volcanic-sandy soils and different orientations. Here can be found ancient vineyards, with many of the plots being more than 100 years old, with centenary ungrafted vines of black Listán, the main red variety, and white Listán, the main white grape variety, also known as Palomino. Along with their own vineyards, they collaborate with local winegrowers on another 15 hectares of vines.
