Ánima Negra, Lo Foll, D.O.Mallorca, red wine, 0.75l

Ánima Negra Lo Foll red wine, from Mallorca (Terra de Falanis), is made from the Callet variety, which has a light raspberry hint and fine tannins. Provocative, natural, complex or artisanal are some of the adjectives that define this wine, which will leave you anything but indifferent, both in appearance and in the way it is made. The wine ages for 6 months in French and American oak barrels.  The Ànima Negra winery from Mallorca was founded by three friends, Francesc Grimalt, Pere Obrador and Miguel Ángel Cerdà. They decided to make authentic Mallorcan wines based on native varieties. Near the town of Felanitx they converted a former dairy into what is today one of the best-known wine cellars in the Balearic Islands. In their first year they produced just two barrique barrels of the local Callet variety. The next two years served them as a de facto study project – they tried to produce the ideal, well-structured wine from this typical Mallorcan variety. Most wines from Mallorca at the time were simple and did not go through any sophisticated ageing process. Their vineyards in the Son Negre area of Mallorca are characterised by a very windy environment (sea air), low production (less than half a kilogram of grapes per vine) and an extreme terroir: very poor soil, significant minerality, small reserves of water in the soil, and many other fruit trees among the vines. The specific conditions in this vineyard force the winemakers to work with old vines, which have deep roots to find the nutrients they need. This makes the winery's production very small and at the same time complex.