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A different vineyard for a different Menorcan wine
MORVEDRA, WHITE WINES OF MENORCA
The Morvedra wine is one of the youngest projects dedicated to the production of wines on the Island of Menorca and will be released commercially in 2024. It is an initiative totally respectful of the environment that works its soils and its vineyards in an ecological way, as it has been working for years in its sister project dedicated to the production of extra virgin olive oil with the same name
Wines
WATCHING QUESTION
The first harvest of Mirant Pregonda, the wine with which Morvedra is presented on the market, it will go on sale during the year 2024, collecting the fruits obtained in the harvest of 2021, and the experience of a few previous years of elaboration.
The wine is a blend of white prensal, predominant, and malvasia, vinified separately. It is fermented in stainless steel tanks, where it stays for six to eight months. After this time, it is bottled and aged in bottle for nearly two years to finish refining.
It has a pale yellow color with a metallic reflection, aromas of medium-high intensity with notes of white fruits and floral aromas typical of Malvasia. Very pleasant in the mouth, it has a lot of volume and a long and balanced persistence.
Morvedra also produces a monovarietal calop blanc, an ancestral variety recovered in 2019, from vines that are grafted from the site’s vines. It is still in the experimental phase and does not have a market release date.
SERVICES
- We do not do organized tours
- The wine is not yet marketed
History
Moved by their genuine interest in starting a wine project, the family that owns the place Sant Josep, as the estates are called in Menorca, with the team formed by the oenologist Isabel Marzá, by the agronomist Marcel Lleonart, and the head of production Josep Barber, in 2015 planted two hectares of white prensal and one of malvasia, on terraces very affected by the north wind that look at one of the most precious corners of the island, Cala Pregonda. They chose the fence from Aritjassos, where it is believed that vines had already been grown there many years ago. The analyzes confirmed that it was an excellent place to grow vines, with the slaty suns of the north of the island, and to be able to get high quality grapes to make a wine worthy of the majesty of the place.
The Vines
The coasts are very exposed to the wind, a perfect ally to combat downy mildew and powdery mildew, the two main vine diseases. There is a wide diversity of soils. Mainly basic soils, with the presence of coarse elements and medium water retention capacity. They are Carboniferous soils: Mixed siliciclastic and carbonate turbidites that provide minerality but result in slow growth and low yields. The grapes have small grains, a lot of skin, and a lot of concentration of aromas.
We treat the vine with minimal intervention in the sun. We leave temporary vegetable covers there. We have opted to cultivate it completely in dry land, to promote the deepest roots in the mountains of the island, and like the rest of the place since 2003, in organic agriculture.
Two years later, at the foot of these coasts, the experimental planting of calop blanc, a variety 100% native to Menorca, grafted from old vines from the estate, began. Experimental because at that time the white calop still did not have the certification of a vinifiable variety, which was achieved in February 2019.
Contact
MORVEDRA OLD SRM
Camí de Ruma s/n – Place Sant Josep
07750 Ironworks
info@morvedra.com
www.morvedra.com
