One of the highlights of our 2023 summer in Mallorca was attending an intimate outdoor cinema event at Los Dos Caballeros Winery between Inca and Llubí. Such was the success of the evening, Los Dos Caballeros Winery has organised a series of movie nights this summer. Cinema Paradiso – a private cinema company in Mallorca – will be screening some popular movies amid the vineyards of this relatively young winery, which produced its first wine […]
The growth in the Mallorcan wine sector has been significant over the 20 years we’ve lived on the island. And that growth hasn’t been only in the number of wineries but also in the quality and uniqueness of the wines produced. Today, Mallorca has around 100 bodegas, with the oldest (Bodega Ribas) dating from 1711. Exciting new wineries have opened in recent years – some of them owned by foreign residents of Mallorca – and […]
Read about the new French oenologist at Finca Biniagual.
Discover a bodega making lighter wines that are perfect for summer.
Its name apparently means ‘vineyard by the sea’ and this couldn’t be more appropriate for the beautiful coastal village of Banyalbufar, on the northwest of Mallorca. Wine was made from grapes grown here from the time the Moors occupied the island, until the dreaded phylloxera plague devastated the island’s wine industry in the late 19th century. Today wine production on Mallorca and in the village of Banyalbufar is thriving. The wine made at the latter’s bodegas is from the malvasia grape […]
Healthy vines lead to healthier wines. That’s not just rhetoric for the Mallorcan winemaker Bàrbara Mesquida Mora – whose wines are the result of vineyards made healthy through biodynamic cultivation. Celler Mesquida Mora is a relatively new winery (started in 2012), but Bàrbara brought a barrelful of experience to her own project – having run her family’s winery with her brother Jaume for some years. It was during that time that the siblings discovered the benefits of […]
If you want to discover Mallorcan wines, a visit to the Fira del Vi, held in the Cloisters of Santo Domingo in Pollensa, is a must. This annual spring event usually takes place two weeks after Easter, and brings together around half of the island’s 70-or-so bodegas, whose wines are available for tasting by the fair’s visitors – who include wine professionals as well as those who just love drinking the stuff. The Fira del Vi was first held […]
How to celebrate Thanksgiving on Mallorca with private chef Ross Hutchison.
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