Style: Red

Vintage: 2020

ABV:  11 %

Region:  Mallorca

Country:  Spain

Varietal: French Fogoneu and Callet

Pairing Ideas: The carbonic, no-added-sulfur Motor America, named in tribute to Francesc’s father who worked in the auto industry, is a straight-up juicy raspberry punch that demands to be drunk. It’s a rare red wine that is satisfying as an aperitif but totally works with a range of food. Pop a bottle while you’re cooking, then another with your lentil salad or smoked duck – at only 11% alcohol and NO added sulfur, it won’t make you feel like a troll the next morning.​

The grower & winemaking: organic, farming, ‘Call Vermell’ soils – the local name for the typical reddish, iron-rich, and porous soils. Destemmed, food trodden, fermented, and aged in clay vats, 50-year-old vines; bottled unfined/unfiltered with no added SO2. 

Francesc Grimalt is a Mallorcan winemaker known for working with native grape varieties. His partner Sergio Caballero is a musician and director of the Sonar music festival. Together they started 4 Kilos in 2006, garagiste-style, vinifying their first vintage in milk refrigeration units on a sheep farm (Mallorca has lots of these). By the next year they were able to ‘upgrade’ another old sheep farm into a winery to make their line-up of 3 wines, all from indigenous varieties grown organically by small farmers.