MALLORCA

THE ISLAND OF MALLORCA is HOME
TO A SURPRISING NUMBER OF NATIVE GRAPES

And we’re mostly talking REDS!

REGIONAL VINEYARD:

Total Vineyard Size

953 hectares

Dedicated to Quality

It may be a small island, but Mallorca commands 2 DO’s. This says something about it’s unique quality offering.

NOTABLE CRU/ZONES:

Binissalem Mallorca

With 616 hectares, this is the largest of the Balearic Islands 2 DO’s.
Check out www.binissalemdo.com

Pla i Llevant Mallorca

WINE STYLE/QUALITY:

% RED

77%
Manto Negro is the principal native red variety in production.

% WHITE

23%
Prensal is the main white variety

% DOP / IGP

Quality is to the fore in Binissalem-Mallorca

MALLORCA – NATIVE GRAPES

As always, we like to list those grapes which we understand are available as mono-varietals or which are locally important blenders. Naturally, as we make further discovery, we’ll update these lists.

NATIVE REDS

Calet

Escursac

Gorgollasa

Manto Negro

This is the principal native RED !

NATIVE WHITES

Fogoneu

Girò Blanc

Despite it’s white name, it’s actually GREY :)

Prensal Blanc

Also known as Moll, this is the main white native variety

OUR STATSOURCES

  • Wine Grapes – Robinson, Harding & Vouillamoz
  • The World Atlas of Wine – Johnson & Robinson
  • Il Mondo del Vino – Associazione Italiana Sommelier, Edizione 2012
  • The Brothers ‘Candrian’ – Aron & Martin Candrian @ Espavino – www.espavino.com

vintage information

All our references are intended to be for indicative purposes only, due to the variability of available data from source to source and vintage to vintage. But we do try to keep ourselves ‘reasonably’ updated :)

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