Winemaker Notes
Opaque garnet in color with ruby reflections, this wine offers wonderfully rich and layered aromas of damson fruit, crushed blackberries, leather, violets, smoke, and spice. An is as sumptuous on the palate as it is in its bouquet, with mouth-filling texture and concentration of flavors.
This wine is best enjoyed on special occasions, with slow-cooked meals such as pot roast, BBQ, and hickory-smoked ribs.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Deep in flavour, polished in texture, and intensely evocative, Anima Negra’s exceptional cuvée spends 18 months in new French oak, but the character of the old Callet vines shines through. A glimpse of the Med, with flashes of fresh fig and leafy herb, a touch of balsamic and olive, and a flash of red fruit. Long and fine. Organic.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
There is a clear improvement in the 2018 ÀN; it's still toasty, smoky and oaky, but there is more of the character of the grapes and place coming through. It's a pale and translucent ruby-colored blend of Callet with small percentages of Fogoneu and Mantonegro. Using their own selected yeasts from the Son Negre vineyard, the grapes fermented in 4,000-liter oak vats and concrete tanks. The palate is medium-bodied, ripe without excess and delicate, like the local grapes can be. I wish I could take away the extra layer of wood that is preventing the wine from really shining through, because the wine is definitely there. It matured in French oak barrels for 14 months. Give it some more time to see if the wine is able to absorb some more of the oak.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Anima Negra An Red Wine brings Mallorca's Indigenous grape, Callet, to the fore. This red grape variety shows power without the burn of high alcohol. TASTING NOTES: This wine excels with aromas and flavors of black fruit, a hint of flowers, delicate berries, and a trace of oak. Enjoy it with grilled lamb kebabs. (Tasted: March 22, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.