Matallana is testament of Telmo Rodriguez and Pablo Egnziza's commitment to making ancestral wines. Wines that are styled on how, and where, the wines were made and how they would have tasted from a region that has being making wines for over 1300 years. The pair started making wine in Ribera del Duero in 1998 and today they work across eleven separate vineyards and across five villages, with the village of Sotillo de la Ribera being the epicenter. (The lines across the label are the names of the 11 villages, blacked out, but that's another story). Rare and abandoned vines were reclaimed, new vines were grafted from these ancestral vines and planted as they would have been, as bush vines. The vines are organic, hand harvested with indigenous yeasts used for fermentation.