Originally from Lanzarote, Pablo Matallana spent time traveling between Valencia and Barcelona, and cut his teeth working for top names such as Mas Martinet in Priorat and Le Bon Pasteur in Pomerol. In 2015, he bottled his first vintage from a recuperated old vineyard in Tenerife named La Bardona. It was a difficult vintage and only produced 500 bottles. After a couple of vintages spent in Chile improving his craft under the watchful eye of Louis-Antoine Luyt, he felt the call to return to his roots and focus on a project that would showcase the uniqueness of the Canary Islands. In 2018 joined the Taro Vinícola project, a small set of vineyards and a winery owned by family friends, set in the dramatic landscape of Lanzarote. Initially the winery farmed and sold grapes to a number of larger projects, but with Pablo’s arrival they stopped doing so and started to focus vinifying their own fruit.