Martúe is one of the most exciting wineries to have emerged from the up-and-coming wine region of Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain, producing high-quality wines at accessible prices for everyday drinking. Martúe was the dream of Fausto Gonzalez, who realized the untouched potential of a microclimate near La Guardia de Toledo, just southeast of the city of Toledo. This area is interesting due to its extreme diurnal shift between day and night temperatures and the complexity of its poor limestone-rich soils. His first step was to remove the lackluster airen, a neutral white grape, often destined for distillation into Spanish brandy. Inspired by other famous field blends of the world, in 1990 he planted tempranillo, syrah, cabernet sauvignon, petit verdot, malbec and merlot with the idea of making an estate wine from a single terruño. In 2009 the estate earned the prestigious and rare designation of DO Pago Campo de La Guardia due to its location in a special enclave with complex soils at 850m elevation at the convergence of two tectonic plates near the Tagus River in central Spain.