The Son Cremat winery, owned by the Fullana María family, has expanded its production capacity with the installation of three new 1,500 liter stainless tanks with cooling jacket, an investment that will allow them to reach up to 10,000 liters of wine elaborated
At the beginning of the year, the winery located in Maó assumed the management of three new hectares of vines planted on the neighboring estate of Can Sagó and has now just invested 20,000 euros which have served him, in addition to acquiring the new tanks, to reform and adapt the cellar space and acquire new machinery such as a bottling machine and a capping machine. Among the improvement plans, in addition, they also plan in the medium term to open a bottling room that would be located in an old disused cistern that is under the same cellar and that would allow them to have a small cellar 10 m2 basement.
“With this incorporation we will have eleven deposits. We are talking about sustained growth that allows us to scale the winery’s facilities to the opportunities offered by the vineyard so that we can face the future with more peace of mind”, explains Joan Fullana, owner of Son Cremat. Recently, they have received authorization to start up one more hectare of the five they have on their farm, adding to the almost two active ones and the three they have been managing in Can Sagó since the beginning of January.
“Until now we had only dedicated ourselves to making whites or rosés and we are enthusiastic about Syrah and Macabeu, which offer us the opportunity to think about new wines and expand our production “, explains the owner of the Son Cremat winery. For now, however, they want to be cautious because if the quality is not up to what they want, they will not market it, since many factors are involved.
One of them has been the grape problem with the fungi, since production has been affected by powdery mildew and since in Son Cremat they work organically despite not being certified as such, they have had to sacrifice 10% of production. The other fight they maintain is against the birds that eat the grape seeds and that forces them to protect the vines with nets that prevent pillaging. “When the grapes are ripest, that’s when the birds come to eat the grapes the most, and that’s why we’re covering them with the nets,” comments Joan Fullana.
Last year the winery produced and marketed two thousand bottles of muscat, two thousand of chardonnay and one thousand of a rosé blend with monestrell and merlot and with the new wines, they could be around eight thousand bottles . What is clear is that Son Cremat has gained a good place among consumers , since everything points to the fact that in a few days, they will run out of the few stocks they have left for 2022.
