Mallorca
Tribal wines ViRAT 2005
Thats a bloody big looking dog on the front of the label, and if you didn’t know that Virat is the wild dog of Mallorca you’d be wonder why on earth you’d put that picture on the front label of a bottle of wine. I was anyway.
An Negra Vit ‘Son Negre’ 2005
This is the top shelf offering from An Negra Vit. It’s made from the best three vineyards these guys have access to with an average vine age of 55 years. What makes these vineyards special is the cooling sea breeze at night that cools the vines down from the heat of the day. Crop levels are kept at around half a kilo per vine and the juice is fermented in 3000 litre wooden vats. As with the AN, the oak treatment is 17 months in new french oak. There is something almost Italian with the flavour profile of these wines, however the wine is very fine and smouth and the level of extraction just right.
An Negra Vit ‘AN’ 2005
When most Aussie think of Mallorca they think of Christopher Skase, perhaps a party island culture, and maybe a boat load of poms completely binned out of their brains on the beach. But not wine. I’ve known that wine was made here but I never had an idea of the quality available. If it’s anything like this stuff, bring it on.
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