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Mallorca is the Germans' favourite island, but Mallorcan wine took a long time to gain recognition in this country. Of course, this was in part due to the late arrival of the Spanish wine revolution on the island. When the first auteur wines were already being bottled in Rioja, Mallorca's wine industry was still in slumber, with less than half a dozen bodegas still bottling wine in the 1980s. It is only in the last 20 years that the area under cultivation has suddenly multiplied, to 3000 hectares today. In addition to the growing thirst of Mallorca's discerning visitors, the far-sighted political measure of linking many a building permit to the existence of an agricultural use also contributed to this. Today, around 70 producers are active on the island, large and small, long-established and newcomers with an international flair.
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