In the Miquel Oliver winery, we are working with the conviction that a great wine can only be made on the basis of the best vineyards.

Vinyes I Bodegas Miquel Oliver has 12 ha of vineyards in the municipality of Petra in the heart of the Pla I Llevant de Mallorca Domination of Origin area.

These vineyards enjoy an enviable location, with a typically Mediterranean climate of slightly cold winters and dry hot summers, an average temperature of 16º and an average rainfall of between 450 and 500 l/m2.

The composition of the soil, which has a heavy clay texture, is the optimum one for the preparation of wines for aging. The earth is reddish in colour from the iron oxide (which is why the vineyard is called Ses Ferritges) with a very low content of organic matter, which limits the yield in a natural way.

We grow wines with scrupulous respect for the environment, so that the use of herbicides is replaced by mechanical and manual means, and traditional manual cultivation methods are given priority (disbudding, removing leaves and excessive growth occasioned by exceptional circumstances), methods that have been abandoned in most regions for their high cost. We maintain them, convinced it improves the quality of the grape.

The grapes are grown on removable trellises which enables us to handle the plants appropriately by optimising the microclimate in the interior of the plants, taking maximum advantage of the many hours of sunshine we have in Mallorca, and by controlling the humidity of leaves and roots which permits us to considerably reduce phytosanitary treatment.

In extremely dry years, we employ a drip watering system, which provides the exact amount of water when necessary, in order to achieve our aim of increasing the phenolic maturity of the grape cluster but without increasing its quantity.

We have arrangements with vineyards in the municipalities of Felanitx, Manacor, Sineu and Montuiri to supplement our grape supply. These vineyards are monitored at all times by staff from the bodega and, generally, they are the same viticulturists as those working in our own vineyards.

In making our wines, we use the indigenous red varieties Callet, Fogoneu and Manto Negro and the white Prensal. We also make our wines from international varieties such as Melort, Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Syrah, Moscatel and Macabeo.