La bodega de Es Fangar — doce años de paciencia, una Bóveda de gravedad

Twelve years of patience, fifty-six hectares of vines, one Bóveda cellar built around gravity rather than pumps. The full story of Bodega Es Fangar Vins — told with sources.<h2>I. A return to a Roman habit</h2>The Romans planted the first vineyards on what is now Es Fangar more than two thousand years ago. Phylloxera erased them in the late nineteenth century, and Mallorca's grand fincas turned to almonds, carob and grain. When Peter and Sabine Eisenmann acquired Es Fangar in 2001, the estate was sleeping. Replanting began in 2004: a deliberate, unhurried return to the agricultural identity the land had always had, with the modern advantage of being able to choose which native and international grape varieties would best honour the gravel-and-chalk soils of the Llevant.¹<h2>II. Daniel Morales — the patient winemaker</h2>Eisenmann's instruction to his founding winemaker, the Priorat-born oenologist Daniel Morales Rodríguez — trained at Mas Martinet, with experience in Montsant and a vintage in South Africa — was simple and unusual: give the vines the years they need. The first commercial vintages would not be released until 2012 — a twelve-year delay between planting and bottle, financed entirely from outside the wine business. “We are very lucky,” Morales told the wine writer Sue Ray during her visit in 2015. “We have time.”²<h2>III. Fifty-six hectares of indigenous and noble varieties</h2>By 2025, the vineyards covered fifty-six hectares across the estate, mainly on south-facing terraces between 90 and 130 metres above sea level. The varietal mix is deliberate: native Mallorcan grapes — Manto Negro, Callet, Premsal Blanc, Giró Ros — alongside Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Viognier and Moscatel. Every hectare is certified organic, every wine certified vegan and vegetarian. Vineyard staff move between the rows on bicycles to avoid compacting the soil. Twenty-two colonies of honey bees pollinate the cover crops, and six are placed beside the vines to drain bird-pierced grapes — a quiet way of preventing mould without intervention.³<h2>IV. Mètode Gravetat — the gravity-flow Bóveda</h2>After three years of construction, the new bodega was inaugurated in April 2016. It is built on a single principle taken from Cistercian monastic cellars: gravity. Grapes arrive at the highest level of the building, are sorted by hand, and then — from de-stemming through fermentation, blending and bottling — they descend through five vertical levels by their own weight. No pumps. No mechanical brutality. The descent is slow, gentle, and protective of the wine's natural structure. The cellar at the heart of the building is a vaulted brick Bóveda, designed for stable temperature and humidity year-round.⁴The facility holds forty-eight stainless-steel fermentation tanks of 12,000 litres each, a 20,000-litre blending tank, a French-oak barrel cellar, and a hand-finishing line for labelling, capsuling and packing. Maximum capacity: 300,000 bottles a year. The architecture is shared with visitors who book private tours and tastings (from €25 per person) — from the upper terrace looking out over the vineyards, down through the levels, into the Bóveda, and finally to the tasting room.³<h2>V. The wines</h2>Today the line is built around ten cuvées, sold under DO Pla i Llevant:<ul><li>TwentyTwelve White (Premsal Blanc, Chardonnay, Viognier) — €15.00 — the young, fresh house white that takes its name from the year of the founding vintage.</li><li>TwentyTwelve Pink (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah rosé) — €15.00 — a Mediterranean rosé with grapefruit and white-peach aromatics.</li><li>Sa Sivina (Premsal Blanc, Giró Ros) — €15.60 — the white that speaks Mallorcan: native varieties, saline finish.</li><li>Sa Fita Blanc (Chardonnay, Viognier) — €19.50 — lees-aged, structured, gastronomic.</li><li>Lo Cortinel·lo Blanc (single-vineyard Chardonnay) — €31.40 — the bodega's premium white, made only in vintages that justify it.</li><li>Genesis Semi Dolç (Moscatel, Premsal Blanc) — €24.00 — a semi-sweet for desserts and elegant aperitifs.</li><li>Son P (Manto Negro, Callet) — €15.60 — the everyday red, native and saline.</li><li>Fangar · Elements (Manto Negro, Cabernet Sauvignon, Callet, Merlot, Syrah) — €30.50 (€68.00 magnum) — the bodega's flagship red, oak-aged after malolactic fermentation in stainless steel.</li><li>N'Amarat — €48.90 — a small-production prestige cuvée released only in exceptional vintages; currently sold out.</li><li>White Discovery Set — €60.00 — a curated three-bottle introduction to the white range.</li></ul><h2>VI. Where to find them</h2>Es Fangar wines are exported to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Spanish mainland, and they appear on the lists of leading restaurants across Mallorca — Sa Cova at Cap Rocat, Maca de Castro, Adrián Quetglas, Es Recer, Casa María, El Olivo at Belmond La Residencia among them. The bodega itself opens to the public Tuesday – Saturday for guided tours of the Bóveda followed by tastings of three or six wines, with optional pairings designed by the estate kitchen. Private tastings, vineyard walks and harvest experiences are arranged by the Estate Manager.<h2>VII. A philosophy, in their words</h2><blockquote>“We are not in a hurry. The land needed time to come back, the vines need time to find themselves, and the wines need time in the cellar. Time is the only luxury we genuinely cannot buy.” — Daniel Morales, founding winemaker (Sue Ray Uncorked, 2015)</blockquote><h3>Sources</h3><ol><li>es-fangar.com — Our History, Our Vineyards, Mètode Gravetat, Our Philosophy, Our Winery, Catalog (accessed 16 May 2026).</li><li>Sue Ray Uncorked — Bodega Es Fangar, September 2015 (interview with Daniel Morales).</li><li>abc-mallorca — Bodega Es Fangar; Es Fangar Wine Cellar; Es Fangar, a finca fit for the future.</li><li>Eurodressage — 7 March 2020 (estate listing and bodega context).</li><li>Ara Balears — 3 December 2025 (Catalan, Spanish, English and German editions).</li><li>Wikipedia (Spanish edition) — Es Fangar; Govern de les Illes Balears — Winery Finca Es Fangar.</li></ol>

— Es Fangar Collection Editorial