Born in Ingenio, Gran Canaria, Carmelo Peña Santana is a young winemaker of international reference. Carmelo studied Chemical Engineering in Las Palmas, but since he was a child he was attracted to the world of catering and, simultaneously with his studies, he worked as a waiter and studied sommelier for 1 year. In his career he chose the specialty of oenology for which, in 2012, he went to Tarragona to the University Rovira i Virgili.

In Tenerife he did an internship at the Viñátigo winery and also went to work in the harvest at the Niepoort winery, Quinta da Carolina. From his friendship with Luis Pedro was born their joint wine called 'El3mento'. Later he worked in Chile with soil expert Pedro Parra and ended up working with Raúl Pérez in Bierzo, where he also collaborated with César Márquez. 

Bien de Altura was born in 2017 with the purpose of recovering old abandoned vineyards. Carmelo works 1.3 hectares of vineyards in the Gran Canarian village of San Mateo and buys grapes from grape growers in the same village, all of them from vines over 80 years old. San Mateo is located at an altitude of over 1,100 meters, which allows it to produce less alcoholic wines, with more acidity: hence the name Bien de Altura. Ikewen, which means "origin" in the Berber language, alludes to the origin of the winemaking in Gran Canaria, the origin of his dream that he wants to transmit to the world.