Wine Description
The mainly Callet grapes are harvested from the oldest vines from many small vineyards in the sub-region of central Mallorca called "Son Negre" -- the Dark Place (because the intense sunlight almost bakes the soil with its heat).
Tasting Notes
17 months of aging in French oak barrels results in a voluptuous wine with intensified aromatics, ripeness, fullness, complexity, and length – and yet, amazingly, with a firm acidic structure.
Reviews
Wine Advocate - Issue #169 / February 28, 2007
Spain: Great Vintages, Great Values
"The 2004 AN is predominantly Callet with a dollop of Mantonegro and Fogoneu. The total yields for this wine were an amazingly low 0.8 tone per acre. Purple in color, it has a superb nose of toasty, smoky oak, earth, black cherry and crushed flowers that jumps from the glass. Full-bodied, it has oodles of ripe fruit, lots of depth, and excellent concentration and length. Drink this hedonistic wine over the next 6-8 years."
92 points
