Today Mallorca's wine producers are working to introduce this wonderful wine all over the world.  As can be seen from the growth of the industry this has been very successful.
They are using cutting edge techniques along with ancestral traditions enabling them to produce top-quality wines boasting a number of protected denominations of origin and have even won the highest honours at several international fairs and competitions. 

Many antique documents have been found, in the Balearics over the centuries indicating that the origins of the spanish wine is semetic and the first wine actually grown on this part of the european continent was phoenician.  There are no records to be found any further back than this, that mention wine growing here on the Balearics.  It would appear that the Arabic conquerers brought their knowledge to these islands and left them with a lasting legacy.  It is understandable with such a legacy that the Mallorcans love of wine is almost 'built in' to the culture of this island and its people.

Of course the history writers infer that the famous balearic "stone throwers" - those men who fought at the side of Hannibal against the roman empire - had an extraordinary wine thirst. It is also to be debated, through the discovery of the many drinking vessels from the 7th and 6th century B.C. as to whether the wine was only transported or whether wine production had existed since before then.

It is strange to think that this wine making knowledge could have come from a people who under the Koran are forbidden to grow wine.  However, it is a known fact that many of the muslim men did not follow this law and grew wine with the help of artfully designed watering systems. The arabs said that it was only possible because of the 'raisins' a food found to be a favourite of the Moors when they occupied the island.