Ànima Negra Àn/2 2007

Anima Negra history began, like many other stories, by chance when three friends from Mallorca, Francesc Grimalt, Pere Obrador and Miguel Ángel Cerdà set out to produce a wine with native grapes from the surrounding fields. That not so long ago (it would be circa 94), but thanks to the passion aroused in them the project and the excellent results obtained from the beginning, we can now say that the winery has become a clear reference, in wines that copyright is concerned, the national wine scene. From the beginning, against the tide, they pushed for native varieties like Callet, the fogoneu or mantonegro at a time when the vast majority of wineries on the island were less daring decanting grapes like cabernet sauvignon. Without doubt one of the keys to success of the project has been his obsession with selecting only the best grapes, although this would involve very small concrete buy a large number of plots payeses amounts. And the other, knowing intelligently adapt processes in the warehouse to the particularities of the grapes working, practicing long maceration, strong extractions and vinification very oxygenation. The result is a tremendously elegant personal wines, complex and are known beyond our borders and let anyone indifferent. It is the blend of the most important varieties of the island of Mallorca Callet, Negre mantle and fogoneu representing 80% of the composition of this wine. Vintage in small boxes of 10 kg. Manual selection of grapes and controlled fermentation in stainless steel tanks 7000 and 10,000 liters temperature, temperature of about 28ºC. It is macerated for about 17 days on average. Malolactic in stainless steel tanks. 13 months aging in barrels. By origin 70% French and 30% American. Age: 35% new barrels and 65% with a maximum of three wines.