“But, i' faith, you have drunk too much canaries, and that’s a marvellous searching wine, and it perfumes the blood” –Shakespeare, Henry IV

El Hierro is the smallest and wildest of the Canary Islands, a landscape of dark volcanic stone rising in chiseled crags from the Atlantic. Only 167 hectares of vines exist here, yet the island holds the greatest genetic diversity of grapes in the chain. It also runs entirely on renewable energy. These conditions convinced Rayco Fernández that El Hierro had the brightest future of all the islands.

Bimbache is the winery he created in 2018, starting with 5 hectares spread across Valverde, Frontera, and El Pinar. The vines grow in terraces hewn into black volcanic walls and hoyos, small craters dug into rocky soil, ringed by lava-stone walls to shield against the trade winds. The vines are old and farmed organically. Harvests are manual, fermentations spontaneous, and the only temperature control is the winery's orientation to catch the wind that almost never stops.

Tinto comes from the sunny, arid south of El Hierro. Soils are mixed volcanic sand, ash, and clay. Some vines are over a century old, planted at an average of 800 meters. Dozens of varieties enter the cuvée, though the majority is listán negro with small amounts of vijariego negro and listán prieto. Spontaneous fermentation, aged in tank, bottled unfined and unfiltered. Notes of pomegranate, black peppercorn, and lightning-struck golden delicious apple, with a sprinkle of dried thyme.