Bodega Castell Miquel

It was during a visit to Mallorca in the 1990s that the German pharmacist, Dr. Michael Popp, saw this very romantic winery in the Tramuntana mountains. He rebuilt the existing agricultural building into an exclusive winery with modern winemaking technology. The entire property covers an area of about 16 hectares, which is largely divided by 500-​year-​old dry stone walls. It is one of the most beautiful sites for a winery that we have seen in our visits to over 200 wineries.
The hospitality of the staff is awesome. For a visitor to be pampered while enjoying the views — this place gets 6 stars. They seat you in a patio area that overlooks the valley. They immediately start pouring their offerings along with local culinary items of meat, cheese and bread. The cost is negligible and the service is passionate.
With the above as the setting, we were plenty disappointed to discover that the wines are made in a very Old World style — High tannins, heavily oaked and not ready to drink. We really tried to like the Cabernet Sauvignon, «Stairway» rosato, Monte Sion (Syrah/​Cab), Shiraz and the Cava. Since we really didn’t have the right palate for the wines, we thought that the Cava (sparkling) would at least give us a chance to buy a bottle before leaving such wonderful facilities and energetic staff. Sadly, even the Cava was too hard on our palates.
These wines are made for European palates which are raised on this style of winemaking. .This is a very worthy place to visit, but we purchased wines at six other wineries on this day and none of the Castell Miguel wines were to our liking.