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