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Borja Perez
Canary Islands, Spain5 wines4.1 avg
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Fourth-generation Tenerife winemaker in DO Ycoden-Daute-Isora - 7.5 hectares of indigenous Canarian varieties from La Guancha's volcanic slopes.
Borja Pérez González is a fourth-generation winemaker whose family has made wine in La Guancha, on the northwest slope of Tenerife, since 1927. He grew up in the family winery, studied agronomy, then took a detour through firefighting and racecar mechanics before coming back to buy the operation from his father and uncle in 2011. He renamed it Ignios Orígenes and reset the direction - varietal focus on indigenous Canarian grapes, tighter vineyard work, a lower-intervention cellar.
About 5.5 hectares owned, plus 2 rented, in DO Ycoden-Daute-Isora. The key parcels: La Vizcondesa (1.5 ha at 450m, clay-limestone), a 40-year-old vineyard in Buenavista del Norte (acquired 2012), and Casa Canales at 770 metres on sandy loam with pebbles. All farmed organically. The grape portfolio is stubbornly Canarian - reds: Listán Negro, Baboso Negro, Vijariego Negro; whites: Listán Blanco, Albillo Criollo, Gual, plus the rare Marmajuelo. Ungrafted vines, volcanic soils, Atlantic wind.
Two lines. Ignios Orígenes is the single-vineyard, single-variety range - Borja's hands only, tiny volumes: Baboso Negro (1,300 bottles), Listán Negro (1,500), Vijariego Negro (2,500), Marmajuelo (2,100, paused since 2019), and Albillo Criollo. Artífice is the more accessible line, an homage to his winegrower grandfather and to the local growers Borja collaborates with: Listán Blanco, Tinto blend, Vidueños blend, Llanito Perera (single-parcel Listán Blanco), and Ventura.
In the cellar: nothing added except sulphur at bottling. No temperature control, no stabilisation, no clarifying beyond natural settling, no fining. Part of the broader Canary natural-wine cohort alongside Envínate and Victoria Torres Pecis, though Borja's family roots in La Guancha go back further than most.
