Terroir Bimbache
El Hierro is the youngest of the Canary Islands. Its size is only 266 km2 and its population around 10,000.
It surged up from the ocean some 1.2 million years ago, during a volcanic eruption. At that time, it only reached 200 meters above sea level, whereas today, the Pico del Malpaso (its highest peak) is 1,500 meters high.
The latest eruption on the island itself dates back from 1793, but in 2011, a submarine eruption took place not so far from La Restinga - the ash then projected in the air even formed a small temporary island.
Although it is very small, El Hierro is very diverse. Its North coast is like a great dark wall climbing up from the sea and the coastal lands are directly submitted to the very humid, Atlantic influence. On the Southern side, on the opposite, the climate is rather dry, the rainfall quite limited.
in between the two, a mountain range reaches 1,500 meters in a few kms.
Bimbache has vines both on the North and on the South side.
White grapes mainly come from small parcels of black lava on the North coast.
Red grapes come from the South, on mixed soils of clay, ashes and sands from volcanic origin.