Macía Batle is the oldest bodega in Mallorca producing its flagship wine from winemaker Eva Garcia Ahveninen. Mallorca’s second largest producer, Macía Batle is also responsible for some of the island’s most interesting and rewarding wines. They have 50 hectares of estate vineyards, where they source local varieties, supplemented by a little Cabernet and Chardonnay. The staple variety is Manto Negro, generally used for ripe, gently spicy reds for drinking young, but also adapts itself well to ripe, full flavoured rosados.
An authentic Mallorcan red, this has aged well and is showing appealing development.
The wine is vinified in stainless steel, moving to age in French oak barrels for fourteen months and the remainder in the bottle, up to 36 months before it is released. A blend of Manto Negro, Merlot, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon.
The Macía Batle Reserva Privada is an intense wine with concentrated blackcurrant fruit, tobacco and spice notes from the oak. The palate is complex with layers of coffee, chocolate, liquorice and a core of black, plummy fruit and cassis enveloped in fine-grained tannins, which gives the wine structure and great length. Well-balanced acidity gives freshness on the finish too.
