Malbec
2008 vintage
GRAPE VARIETY:
100% Malbec
VINEYARD:
Tupungato, Valle de Uco, Mendoza.
ALTITUDE:
950 meters above sea level
YEILD OF VINEYARD:
70 hl/ha.
TASTING NOTES:
An elegant Malbec, with outstanding purple red tones. This wine offers intense aromas and flavors of mulberry and dried plums with important notes of vanilla and tobacco. Excellent in the mouth, recalling chocolate combined with a light smoke that makes it irresistible.
Sweet, complex, representative of the greatest Argentine Malbec.
Harvest: manual during April, in 400 kg bins.
DESTEMMING:
Yes.
VINIFICATION:
Traditional, pre-maceration in cold at 4°C for 72 h, spontaneous alcoholic fermentation at controlled temperature around 25°C.
MACERATION TIME:
25 days.
MALOLATIC FERMENTATION:
100%.
AGING:
6 months on french oak 85% and american oak 15%.