La Castellana is from the Alhambra Luthier Series, signed by in-house luthier Jaime Julia at Muro del Alcoi, Valencia. Julia has minimal public market presence. The signature on the label is the record. That near-anonymity is itself part of what the Luthier Series is: individual work inside a factory, without individual fame.

The Alhambra Luthier Series was created specifically to give individual luthiers within the factory context a way to put their name on work they built entirely themselves. Jaime Julia signed this instrument. His signature makes it his. Signed examples of this tier are increasingly difficult to source.

Valencia's guitar-making tradition runs warmer and clearer than the Andalusian schools. La Castellana's blanca construction places it in that voice. It is a working instrument built to the highest standard a factory can produce when it steps aside and lets one person do all of it.