Bimbache is the name of the former inhabitants of the small island of El Hierro, the westernmost and smallest island of the Canary Islands. After being conquered by the Spanish in 1405, the local inhabitants or Bimbaches were sold as slaves a few years later. However, it is also and above all the name of one of the most imaginative wine projects of recent years in Spain. Rayco Fernández (we also know him from the "Puro Rofe" project in Lanzarote), is a local wine distributor in Gran Canaria with an immense knowledge of the potential and future of the islands' vineyards. Not many hectares of vineyards remained in El Hierro. Certainly along the steep north side of the island there are still few wine growers who take their chances. The returns are often too small to legitimize the investment. Rayco took a chance and the wines are now a household name. The wines of Bimbache are so different, so original and above all so Atlantic.
