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This is a tale about a turtle who lived in a very large pond full of cool, clear water. For many years, he was quite content swimming lazily around the large pond, or basking in the sun on top of one of the big... |
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We introduced a new feature to our new autumn / Winter brochure, a Small square barcode called a QR-Code (Quick Response Code). |
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On Friday the 21st of October First Mallorca, the leading Mallorca estate agency, celebrated the opening of their 5th and new office in Port Adriano together with the launch of their new autumn/winter brochure... |
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First Mallorca will celebrate an event together with three other strong brands from the island – Port Adriano Marina, Macià Batle and Marc Fosh – and the response to our invitations does not stop... |
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A few days ago, we took part in an event held by Banco Sabadell in the Hotel Castillo Son Vida. During this event, the President José Oliu made a clear remark, "We do not live in times of crisis any longer, we live in a new market reality"...
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The Spanish construction industry is in a sorry state, with real estate sales stagnant - or so the news papers tell us almost daily. But there are one or two exceptions, notably on Mallorca... |
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Mallorca offers a great selection of international schools totalling 10. Amongst them there are British, French, Swedish and German schools, teaching in their native language but incorporating Spanish and in most cases additional languages... |
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It may not look like it, but…
we open in September! First Mallorca clearly on an expansion course has recently promoted Alex Schmitz to the office manager of their 5th office on the island. |
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After our last market report a friend and client commented to us, "Your report appears like a summary made for the share holders of a multi-national company. Why do you feel the need for this?" ... |
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It was the perfect atmosphere for a perfect event and even the sun smiled broadly on Saturday, 16th of April when First Mallorca presented its excellent new brochure with the curiosity arousing title "Tasty Properties"... |
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Fine Wines and Family Vines
 At the tender age of four, knowing the difference between red and white is something we all learn at school. When speaking of the fermented kind, it usually takes us a few more years, but little Jaume from Petra already knows what he is talking about. Even though his glass is only filled with water, he can swirl it around, take a sniff and say “mmmm”, because he is the son of Pilar Oliver, a pioneer in the world of viniculturalists and owner of the family-run wineries ‘Miquel Oliver Bodegas’.
From the heart of Petra village, famed for being the birth place of Fray Junípero Serra, the Oliver family has been dedicated to producing fine wines for almost 100 years. Now managed by Pilar and her husband, the company named after her father, was originally founded by her great grandfather in 1912.
The hundreds of barrels of wine they produce are still stored in their cellar just as they were many years ago, where pressing also used to take place. Their 14 hectares of vineyards located on outskirts of the town produce a wide variety of grapes which are now pressed, together with others sourced from the Felanitx and Santanyi areas, in Manacor. For a bottle of wine to bear the “Pla i Llevant Denomination of Origin in Mallorca” label, grapes are only allowed to be sourced from a selection of 19 villages in the Pla i Llevant area. “We now press and process all of our grapes in Manacor, as the streets are quite narrow near the cellar here in Petra and the lorry loads of grapes would find it difficult to reach us”, says Pilar. “It didn’t matter so much when they were brought here by cart!”.
Miquel Oliver was one of the first wineries in Mallorca to accept new technological advances such as cooling equipment, allowing better control over wine fermentation. Although Pilar agrees that tradition is important, she has no hesitation in trying new methods and became the first in Spain to produce a dry Muscatel wine, voted the number one Spanish white wine by the ‘Association of Spanish Sommeliers’.
Apart from researching, marketing and finding new ways of understanding wines, Pilar and her family oversee the grape picking which is a tiresome 2-month process, as once picked, the grapes have to find their way to Manacor for pressing the same day.
They currently have 10 bottles in their wine repertoire, all of which are unique. From their award-winning dry muscatel called “Muscat”, to a full bodied, full flavoured Merlot named “Aix”, not forgetting the classic Mediterranean style “Mont Ferrutx”, which they have been producing for 40 years.
The Miquel Oliver Cellar is open to the public all year round from Monday to Friday, where you can meet Pilar and taste and purchase their latest creation. Bringing your own chauffeur is highly recommended!
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