Pablo Matallana "La Bardona" Vinas del Norte Tenerife 2023

Pablo Matallana "La Bardona" Vinas del Norte Tenerife 2023Pablo Matallana is a young, forward thinking winemaker based on the Canary island of Tenerife. Through organic viticulture and thoughtful winemaking, Pablo seeks to showcase different grape varieties and the unique terroir of the Canaries. Pablo studied enology at the highly respected Polytechnic University of Valencia, and after graduation he worked in both Chile and Priorat before returning to Tenerife to pursue his own project. He made his first

fresh ocean breeze

100% Catarratto Gran Lucido from the northwest coast of Sicily

or added sulfur

sinewy structure

Sandy clay soils over red basalt bedrock

It's a very memorable and unique wine

If drinking now

6 months on skins in qvevri

That's still his main gig but he and his wife Leli started making their own wines with purchased fruit in 2018 in their garage that fall under the Galactic label

Shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them

easy and so much fun

the wild Tobala grows sparsely in high altitude canyons and prefers the shade of rocks and larger trees/shrubs