Fato 2022 Producer|Ramon Jané

Fato 2022 Producer|Ramon JanéA big blend of different Mallorcan varietals from all over the island go into this iteration of Fato (previously known as Chateau Pacquita). The fruit here is dark, luminous and sun kissed without being weighty. Balancing the fruit is a gentle layer of earth, herbs, spice sitting against a salty sea breezy quality. Few wines transport us to their origin in the same way as Elio's, this is Mallorca in a glass. Fato 2022 is made with old vines of Callet,

sanguine quality

an element of skin-contact provides texture and aromatics and has the wine dancing in the middle of the white wine/orange wine venn diagram

More-ish Sicilian Nero d’Avola for knocking back with abandon

this is the more delicate

delicate tannic profile

Made with grapes from many different micro-parcels planted over 5 hectares

produced in tiny quantities and built to go the distance

before being fortified with alcohol and sugar

Fantastically fine-grained tannins imprint a detailed granular feel in the finish

spice sitting against a salty sea breezy quality

grippy tannic structure and frothy bubble

salinity and that unmistakable waft of kerosene lifting from the glass