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Investment in Mallorcan Wine Industy

Expansion of property, vine yards and buildings across the Island

featured in News & reviews Author Pam Williamson, Mallorca Editor Updated

In recent years the growth of the wine industry on Mallorca has been moving fast and now further investments and developments are needed in order to sustain this growth.

Wine has been produced in Mallorca for almost two thousand years and the industry saw a major expansion towards the end of the nineteenth century. However, until very recently Mallorcan wines have been something of a well-kept secret beyond the shores of the island. Whilst Mallorcan wines are still not widely available outside of Spain, they are without doubt the first choice wine to enjoy with local food when visiting the island.

Having benefited from considerable investment and modernisation in the last decade, there are many ambitious new projects and expansion plans still in the making. Perhaps the biggest of which is currently the plans of German businessman Peter Eisenmann to establish a commercial viticulture on his property in the east of the island. The area will be filled in the future with grapes that will produce 350,000 bottles of wine per year!

In addition there will be an investment of seven million euros in a new winery building in the industrial area of ​​Felanitx, building of which started just a few weeks ago. The cosmetic entrepreneur Hans-Peter Schwarzkopf also wants to commercialise his hobby of wine making at his Finca 'Can Axartell' in Pollensa someday, although the project is still far from the ambitions plans of Peter Eisenmann.

More buildings are in development in the Son Prim winery in Sencelles. The new building will include modern office space and operating rooms in over 800 square feet of space. Annual production of this winery is about 75,000 bottles, including the "Blanc de Merlot", an unusual white wine from red grapes.

Several other producers are taking this chance to expand land and buildings and there is a real excitement within the wine industry in Mallorca. So if you are visiting the Island then make sure you try the local wines!