vdlt mallorca founded in 1994 by three friends with no wine-making experience. made first batch in...

• VdlT Mallorca

• Founded in 1994 by three friends with no wine-making experience. Made first batch in dairy farm milk jugs. One of Mallorca’s first exported wines and a cult wine in Spain.

• Dry farming; organic (no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides); biodynamic (mulching, tinctures & lunar cycles); low vine density and integrated farming

• Honored by Slow Food movement with induction into Ark of Taste

Quíbia

• VdlT Mallorca

• 50% Callet and 50% Premsal

• Quíbia is a word the winemakers invented to mean a world with no limits, partly referring to the fact that theirs was the first time a white wine had been made from the red Callet grape

• Fermented in cement vats and stainless steel tanks

• 4 mos lees aging

ÀN/2

• VdlT Mallorca

• 65% Callet, 20% Mantonegre & Fogoneau, 15% Syrah

• Aged 13 mos in French & American oak

• Old vines 50-85 years old

• 2009: 91 WA

• 2010: 92 WA

ÀN

• VdlT Mallorca

• 95% Callet, 5% Mantonegre & Fogoneu

• Old vines up to 110 years old

• Aged 17 months in new French oak

• Burgundian in its complexity, with a pale red color and heightened clarity. Red fruit, spice, leather and smoke, with excellent structure and acidity.

Son Negre

• VdlT Mallorca

• 95% Callet, 5% Mantonegre & Fogoneu

• Vines from Son Negre vineyard (110 years old)

• 19 mos new French oak• Son Negre = Dark Place and is the name of the vineyard,

named because of the way the sun bakes the soil

• Dark ruby with hints of purpl; violets, tobacco, black cherry, and black raspberry. Extremely rich, layered, and long on the finish.

• 2010: 94 WA