butibalausí wines

 

 

Can Majoral’s young wines are known under Butibalausí label. Threedifferent wines (white, rosé and red) made on traditional Majorcan varieties blended with some foreign ones.

13th Century’s Llibre de Repartiment del regne de Mallorca remarks the existence of Moorish hamlet Beneiza Alualenci, three jovades wide (about 85 acres), given to King’s tutor Bernat de Tortosa.

New Christian landlords transformed that name, which seemed to have no sense, into something like Ambuualenci, that then court clerk after clerk ended up in an euphonical Butibalausí which, through more than seven centuries, returns to designate life-brightening vineyard’s fruit.

Not worthlessly, Idris al-Yamân, one of the scarce insular Muslim poets, sang his verses:

The glasses towards us burdensomely came

However with pure wine refilled

Lightened became

And almost flying with their content

As bodies are lightened along with the spirits.

Today Son Reus vineyards retrieve the ancient name, while its fruit will help us fly like the poet’s light glasses.