Viñedos do Gabián is the one-man project of José Pereiro López-Quecuty, known to his friends as "Pepiño". Pepiño grew up in Vigo, where his parents operated a pharmacy. He became interested in wine in his twenties and, in 2006, he took a masters degree in viticulture and enology in Madrid. That was followed by a stage with Jiménez-Landi in Méntrida.

While working at Jiménez-Landi, Pepiño met Raúl Pérez, one of Spain's most revered winemakers. They became fast friends, and Raúl invited Pepiño to work in his cellar in Bierzo. During his time working with Raúl in the 2010 and 2011 vintages, he produced O Viño do Pepiño, the first wine to carry his name.

Pepiño established his personal project in his native Galicia in 2013. The Ribeiro D.O. at the time was mostly known for bulk white wines, the exceptions being the world-class Treixadura-based wines produced by small colleiteros like Emilio Rojo and Luis Anxo Rodríguez Vasquez. Pepiño took the opposite approach, focusing instead on the local red varieties Caiño Longo and Brancellao.

The estate holdings amount to a little over 2.5ha in an amphitheater-like clos in the village of Carballeda de Avia. The vines are planted at around 250m of altitude (notably high for this relatively flat viticultural zone) in decomposed granite soils called sábrego. This fruit is supplemented by purchases from a carefully-selected group of smallholders.

Pepiño now runs his parents' pharmacy by day, but he is working on planting additional vineyards so he can one day live from winemaking alone. For the moment, his schedule does not allow him time to work within the bureaucracy of the Ribeiro D.O., so his wine is labeled as a generic Vino de España.