Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
Jose L. Ferrer Pedra de Binissalem Negre 2009
A quick taste would suggest that this isn't quite as spoofy as the couple other Mallorcans I have tried. 14,96e; 14,5% abv; 50% Mantonegro & 50% Cabernet Sauvignon. 6 months in French and American oak. Despite quite plentiful oak aromas and upfront fruit the wine ends up seeming quite fresh and light on its feet and has a lovely wildness that isn't - gladly - quite successfully tamed. Lovely, dark, tangy fruit, again a little bit wild but it seems like the Cabernet and oak try to tame it. Very fresh finish, mineral even. I actually quite like this wine despite my usual aversion to oak and Cabernet (will I now be kicked off this bored?). But I can't help thinking that I would have liked it more with less of them. I prefer wildness and character to tameness and familiarity.
So who makes unspoofy wines in Mallorca from the autochthonous varieties?
And a question for the Spanish speakers: in the word "Binissalem", which vowels are long and/or stressed? I'm trying to figure out the etymology from Arabic but since I don't know Spanish, I can't decide whether it is Children of Peace or Children of Salîm.
A quick taste would suggest that this isn't quite as spoofy as the couple other Mallorcans I have tried. 14,96e; 14,5% abv; 50% Mantonegro & 50% Cabernet Sauvignon. 6 months in French and American oak. Despite quite plentiful oak aromas and upfront fruit the wine ends up seeming quite fresh and light on its feet and has a lovely wildness that isn't - gladly - quite successfully tamed. Lovely, dark, tangy fruit, again a little bit wild but it seems like the Cabernet and oak try to tame it. Very fresh finish, mineral even. I actually quite like this wine despite my usual aversion to oak and Cabernet (will I now be kicked off this bored?). But I can't help thinking that I would have liked it more with less of them. I prefer wildness and character to tameness and familiarity.
So who makes unspoofy wines in Mallorca from the autochthonous varieties?
And a question for the Spanish speakers: in the word "Binissalem", which vowels are long and/or stressed? I'm trying to figure out the etymology from Arabic but since I don't know Spanish, I can't decide whether it is Children of Peace or Children of Salîm.