Production of D.O. Binissalem-Mallorca and VTMallorca wines.
Tradition and innovation recognized throughout Mallorca.
Visiting the José L. Ferrer wineries is like taking a trip through the four generations that have been in charge of the winery. You will be able to know the different stages that the winery has lived, as well as the extensions that have been carried out for more than 85 years to improve winemaking techniques. Although the boddega has been modernized to place it in a reference of Mallorca, we have not lost sight of the traditional techniques that are still fundamental for us.
Description
Bodegas José L. Ferrer is a reference in the production of wines in Binissalem.
Four generations who have been working since 1931 so that the Majorcan flavor of our wines can be enjoyed around the world.
In 1931, 28-year-old José L. Ferrer founded this winery under the name Vinícola de Binissalem, being a pioneer in Mallorca: introducing new techniques for growing vines, bottling wines for sale, aging them in oak barrels , making white wines from indigenous varieties and later, exporting wines to Europe and the United States.
Currently, the winery is still managed by the family, specifically by José L. Roses, the founder's grandson, who worked hand in hand with his grandfather from a young age, and his children María, Pepe and Oscar, who since they started managing They continue to pamper the winery just as their ancestors did, working every day so that the years of family tradition and innovation continue to make the history of Bodegas José L. Ferrer unique.
THE WINERY
In the cellar you can clearly differentiate four parts:
- The oldest, from 1931, built by the founder. It has cement tanks typical of the time, with a capacity of 15,000 liters each. Today they are still used for the fermentation and storage of our wines.
The most emblematic cellar is also from this time and is where the larger format wines rest during bottle aging.
- Next to the cellar of 1931, we find a small extension of it, which was carried out by José L. Ferrer in 1960 in order to acquire more capacity. This cellar has 6 cement tanks with a capacity of 30,000 liters each tank and more space to store barrels for aging wine.
- The next major expansion was in 1995 by the Roses Ferrer brothers, grandchildren of the founder. Here a more modern and period air is clearly perceived, due to the predominance of stainless steel, both its two hoppers and the 14 tanks of 35,000 liters destined for fermentation and with a temperature regulation mechanism.
In this part there are also the two cellars, in two basements at different levels, with a capacity for 2,000 barrels.
- The last and most modern part is a small winery, Veritas, built in 2016, when the great-grandchildren of the founder began to be part of the company. It consists of smaller stainless steel tanks and 4 wooden vats where high quality wines and lower production are fermented and made.
It also has a basement in which there are 500L spin barrels that allow microfermentations, and the specific machinery to remove the sparkling wines before disgorgement, which was previously done manually in the 1960 cellar.
THE VINES
In Bodegas José L. Ferrer we believe that the main thing to make a good wine is to obtain the best grapes and that is why we have been working for years in the best possible way our lands, to get the best of each of our strains.
The family has always believed very much in the importance of the vineyards for the good result of our wines and that is why apart from betting on the winemaking process, since 2015 we are carrying out an R + D + i project in our vineyards to consolidate the knowledge of the native varieties and their qualities through a diagnostic method that helps us in the decisions of Irrigation, pruning, defoliation and thinning. All this with the help of the University of the Balearic Islands, Verdtech and the CDTI.
Bodegas José L. Ferrer has about 140 hectares of its own vineyard and additional controlled ones, from suppliers with whom we work every day to get the best out of the vines.
In these vineyards we grow a total of 15 grape varieties, of which 8 are red varieties: the native Mantonegro, Callet and Gorgollasa, as well as the foreign Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Syrah, Merlot and Monastrell and 7 white varieties: the native Moll and Giró Ros, in addition to the foreign Chardonnay, Parellada, Macabeo, Moscatel and Moscatel de grano menudo.
All these varieties are distributed in about 20 farms located in the municipalities of Binissalem, Consell and Sencelles, municipalities that at the same time are part of the Binissalem Denomination of Origin.
Our vineyards are located in the heart of the island of Mallorca, the Sierra de Tramuntana protects them from the cold northern winds causing an ideal mild Mediterranean microclimate, with dry and hot summers and short winters.
The soils are calcareous in nature and have developed on alluvial sediments contributed in the Quaternary. They are characterized by high stoniness and reddish-brown colorations, due to the high content of iron oxides. Calcisols and, to a lesser extent, Luvisols are the most common forms.
These soils, with high contents of iron and microelements, are very suitable for the cultivation of the vine, being the autochthonous varieties those that reach the maximum expression from these particular edaphic conditions.
The relief of our vineyards is generally very soft and they are located at an altitude that oscillates 130 meters above sea level.
THE WINES
Bodegas José L. Ferrer produces different ranges of wines, for all types of palates, without ever forgetting the characteristics of the native varieties.
The José L. Ferrer range has been produced since the beginning in 1931 and consists of five wines that we can well consider a symbol of Mallorca. They are wines that express the unique qualities of the native varieties and the terroir of Binissalem, maintaining the traditional touch in the elaboration of the wines.
The Veritas range began to be developed fifteen years ago, but it was not until 2013 that the range we know today was completed, a clear example of innovation and selection. The widest range of the winery, is ideal for the most demanding palates and those willing to experiment and know new types of wines based on native varieties, always taking care of the selection of both the vineyard and the grapes in the plant itself as well as the selection of the best barrels.
The DUES range was born for those more modern palates. Also giving importance to those foreign varieties cultivated for years in our lands, thus emerged three wines, two reds and one white, in which we find in each wine a perfect blend of a native grape with another foreign.
The stone, pedra in Mallorcan, of Binissalem is known throughout the island and is very characteristic of the town in which the winery is located. It is enough to walk through its streets to realize it. The same happens if you enter our vineyards, full of this type of stone, hence our Pedra de Binissalem range, three organic wines deeply rooted in our lands.
The FERRERET range. Ferreret is a small amphibian native and exclusive to Mallorca. Apart from this, its name comes from the similarity of its song with the hammer blows on the anvil of the blacksmith, ferrer in Mallorcan. All this history and the play on words that makes a nod to the younger generations of the family, inspired us to create the FERRERET range, of monovarietal wines with native varieties of the Binissalem region.
The AUTÈNTIC range is formed by a red a white, the red has been produced in the winery for more than 70 years and for a few years the winery decided to produce a white, also very authentic and characteristic of Binissalem.
The NÀUTICS are more modern wines, but very moving, ideal for summer evenings and very versatile thanks to the screw cap.
