Suertes del Marques Trenzado 2024

Trenzado is Suertes del Marqués' expression of 100% Listán Blanco from Tenerife, Spain. Trenzado takes its name from a local vine training method called Cordon Trenzado, in which the branches of the vine are almost braided together and supported on stakes (as pictured on the label). Trenzado is wild, expressive, and distinctive with notes of struck match, peach, apple, and acacia.

Tenerife has a long and fascinating winemaking history, indigenous varieties such as Listán Negro and Blanco, Tintilla, and Baboso Negro. Many vineyards are made up of 100-year-old+ ungrafted vines. Jonatan Garcia runs the family winery that is located in the Orotava Valley on the north side of the island. Many are grown in a traditional trellising system called Cordon Trenzado – vine branches are braided together and supported on stakes, and eventually grow into gnarly arms sometimes several metres in length. The estate has some incredibly old, low-yielding vines and produces wines that have freshness, balance, purity of fruit, minerality, and an authentic terroir character.

Suertes del Marqués is a family winery that has been producing wines since 2006. However, their tradition as winegrowers dates back to twenty years before that date, growing and selling their grapes to other wineries in the Appellation Valle de La Orotava. Geographically they are in the north of the island of Tenerife, in Valle de La Orotava, a valley within the town of the same name.

Without losing sight of the respect for tradition, cornerstone of their winery philosophy, in Suertes del Marqués they artificially interfere as little as possible in the production of their wines, so they work with indigenous yeasts, avoid racking, and use only minimal amounts of sulfur in their wines. All processes in the cellar are carried out by hand, from works in the vineyard to harvest. They avoid any systemic treatments in the vineyard, using only natural products when vine diseases eventually arise.

What you get is wild, expressive, and distinctive Listán Blanco with struck match, peach, apple, and acacia. The wine comes from incredibly old, low-yielding ungrafted vines trained in the traditional Cordon Trenzado method, creating a wine with freshness, balance, purity of fruit, minerality, and authentic terroir character. This is Tenerife white wine at its most honest and compelling.

Serve it cool (not cold) with seafood, grilled fish, poultry, or aged cheeses. This is honest, characterful Canary Islands wine from a family winery committed to minimal intervention and respecting tradition, perfect for those looking for something wild, expressive, and genuinely distinctive from ancient ungrafted vines.