Suerte Marques, Valle Orotava Ciruelo Vintage:2018 This is perhaps the richest

This is perhaps the richest wine among these 1ers with good volume and punch on the austere and markedly firm but not aggressive finish

Denis measuring

palate coating and long if mildly rustic finish

the barely middle weight flavors cut like a knife with super minerality and the finishing delineation is notable

his top 2006 Auslesen would have been Beerenauslesen

Suerte Marques, Valle Orotava Ciruelo Vintage:2018 This is perhaps the richestThe 2018 El Ciruelo could very well be the finest vintage of this single vineyard bottling, from a plot on very poor soils that has very balanced vines that usually give the more complex and deeper wine from the winery. It's a north facing plot at 480 to 520 meters in altitude pruned in the cordn trenzado system unique to La Orotava. It fermented with 100% full clusters, no temperature control, indigenous yeasts and a 27 day maceration time. It