Jonatan García Lima's father started buying up small vineyard plots in Tenerife's Valle de la Orotava back in 1986, originally just looking for a weekend escape from his factory job, and kept adding parcels over the years, including the plot that gives this wine its name, El Esquilón, right next to where the winery now stands.
The family sold their grapes to other producers until 2005, then decided to start making their own wine, founding Suertes del Marqués the following year.
Because phylloxera never reached the Canary Islands, every vine here grows on its own original rootstock, and some of the family's oldest plots are 200 to 250 years old, according to García Lima himself.
It's a small, terroir-driven operation built on the idea that these ancient, ungrafted vines and Tenerife's volcanic soils have more to say than any imported technique ever could.
