Winemaker
Borja Pérez González
- Discipline
- Winemaker
- Based in
- La Guancha, Spain
i. Biography
Grower-winemaker at Borja Pérez Viticultor in La Guancha, Spain, Borja Pérez González is defined by vineyards before cellar technique. Since 2011, through Ignios Orígenes, he has built a body of work around organic farming, volcanic and wind-cooled sites, local grapes, and a spare approach to winemaking that keeps intervention deliberately low.
The Honours
The clearest recognition attached to Borja Pérez González is the work itself: the grower-winemaker role at Borja Pérez Viticultor, in La Guancha, Spain. In a region where site can speak with unusual force, his name is tied to a specific way of farming and bottling rather than to a list of public medals. That achievement rests on discipline. The wines associated with his work are vivid and low-intervention, drawn from local grapes grown in volcanic vineyards cooled by wind. The authority of the project comes from how little is placed between those vineyards and the bottle.
The Craft
His farming is organic. In the cellar, the approach is natural: no additives other than SO2, no temperature control, no stabilization, no clarifying beyond natural settling, and no fining. Those choices are not decorative details; they define the wines’ shape. Without temperature control, stabilization, fining, or conventional clarification, the process gives less room for correction and more responsibility to the fruit, the site, and the timing of the work. Natural settling becomes the clarifying method, and SO2 is the only additive specified for the process. The vineyard setting matters just as much. He works volcanic, wind-cooled vineyards and bottles wines from local grapes, placing La Guancha at the center of the project’s identity. The result is a craft language built from place, farming, and restraint rather than from cellar manipulation.
The Career
Ignios Orígenes began in 2011 in La Guancha, Spain. Borja Pérez González founded the project and has served as its winemaker from 2011 to the present, making the estate the central professional platform for his work. Alongside that role, he is identified as the grower-winemaker at Borja Pérez Viticultor, also in La Guancha. The pairing of grower and winemaker is important: it places the agricultural decisions and the cellar decisions in the same hands, connecting organic farming directly to the finished bottles. His career, as it is publicly framed through these projects, is compact and place-specific. Rather than a progression through many named addresses, it centers on one Tenerife municipality, one founding year, and a set of farming and winemaking rules that give the wines their character.
Profile updated July 2026
FAQ
Asked of Borja
What is Borja Pérez González's current role?
Borja Pérez González is grower-winemaker at Borja Pérez Viticultor in La Guancha, Spain, and has been winemaker and founder of Ignios Orígenes since 2011.
What is Borja Pérez González's most notable recognition?
His most notable recognition is his work as grower-winemaker at Borja Pérez Viticultor in La Guancha, Spain.
Where is Ignios Orígenes based?
La Guancha, Spain.
What is Borja Pérez González known for?
His farming is organic, and his winemaking is natural, with no additives other than SO2, no temperature control, stabilization, clarifying other than natural settling, or fining.
