Do you remember sitting with your friends and agreeing that you should open a bar together?
It was one of those Sundays, where you’re sat with friends and the typical lunch in Spain is Paella. In our group of friends we have Sergio (the enologist), Joan (the wine farmer) and Christian (the entrepreneur).
We were tasting wine and eating, and the kids were playing in the yard. As we were tasting the wine, which mainly was from Mallorca, Sergio commented that he would like to do his own wine as well. He had always been doing other people’s wines according to their wishes, but he had never had the opportunity to do his own and he had an idea for a white wine that could be different, he said. Christian then asked Sergio why he had never done a wine project on his own? The answer was essentially the fear of paperwork and the comfort of being employed. But as that is never a valid excuse, the conversation evolved and became heated. Just like when you’re sat with friends, and you come up with the idea to open a bar. But with one key difference:
Between the 3 of us, it was clear that we had the wish, the abilities and the raw materials to kickstart a wine project.
What we didn’t have was a “bodega”, money and a plan. But as they say: if you don’t know how to get to your destination, but you can see what your next move could be, just do that. So, we did that.
We planned and decided to invest 1,500€ each to buy grapes and rent the facilities to be able to actually make the wine.
Luckily, we all agreed on the basics of the project and thus our slogan was born: “respect, passion, creation”.
These 3 words encapsulates what the project is about.
The word “respect” is about respecting the “terroir”, the environment and the wine. For us, this materialises in the way we approach wine making from start to finish. We always do ecological wine with minimum intervention. We do not use additives to e.g. add acidity to the wine. We basically press the grapes and then add some sulphites towards the end. We believe that this gives the most honest taste of the terroir, and this is what we wish to respect.
The word “passion” is how we describe what we feel for wine. We like to drink, taste, share, investigate, experiment and innovate. This is also how the idea to make a wine of a Mallorquin grape type that was just retrieved from some of the oldest wine fields of Mallorca was made a reality (Negrella). And how the idea of our white wine with high natural acidity came to life (Rødder). Just like our rose is also an expression of trying something different as this wine is made from the same grapes as the white but in different proportions (Moneot).
Lastly but not least, the word “creation” refers to the simple act of making wine. This is what we love to do and without actually creating the wine, all the ideas of what we could be doing, would just be wasted. For us, thinking and talking about how Mallorquin wine should or could taste is not enough. We need to create it.
respect ꟾ passion ꟾ creation
