- Can Corró, Inca, Mallorca
A familiar project
Our
history
The Nacra winery is a personal and family project developed on the Can Corró estate, located at the foot of the Puig de Santa Magdalena, in Inca, where two native varieties of vine are grown: Malvasía and Giró ros and where the winery has been built.
Can Corró
The estate, Can Corró, of around two hectares is a family plot of land belonging to Magdalena Llabrés. It was cultivated as pasture for sheep. In this place of Inca, with views of the Serra de Tramuntana , her husband, Professor at the UIB, Hipólito Medrano, embarked a few years ago on the adventure of planting vines with two native varieties, Malvasía and Giró, and producing and selling their wines. In this way, Hipólito and his team began the task of transforming into wine the knowledge accumulated after a lifetime dedicated to researching the physiology of plants and, specifically, of the grapevine, and also to recover and promote the native varieties of Mallorca.
Among these tasks, the sanitation and recovery of the Malvasia of Banyalbufar was a project on which he worked for years with passion. The sanitation was achieved through the “in vitro” meristem culture followed by meticulous and prolonged work carried out in the laboratories and greenhouses of the UIB and with the collaboration of the Agriculture Department. The virus-free Malvasia plants were obtained and later achieved official certification.
A project that, after years of research in the field and laboratory, enabled the planting of certified as “virus-free” Malvasia de Banyalbufar, and thus recovering this ancestral crop, so closely linked to the history of Mallorca that, after a period of prestige cited by Archduke Lluís Salvador, had entered into decline at the end of the 20th century.