Tasting Notes: A fancy, elegant but powerful wine, revealing ripe red and black fruits. Pure silk and velvet, it invades the palate, leaving a wide and long lasting aftertaste. Barrel aging enhances its elegance without taking over fruitiness. A wine that will surprise your senses.

 

Wine making process: Prior crushing, grapes were hand sorted.  Fermentation was slow, at low controlled temperature (15ºC) produced by selected yeasts. The 100% of the wine underwent malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels, and it was aged for 11 months in first usage French (60%) and American (40%) oak barrels.

 

Service Temperature: 14ºC to 16ºC

 

Varietal Composition: Malbec, Tannat, Cabernet-Sauvignon.

 

Alcohol Volume: 14,76 %  Total acidity: 5,99 g/l  Volatile acidity: 0.72 g/l  Sugar content: 3,72 g/l

 

Vineyard Yield: average 5 tons per hectare.

 

Vineyard conduction system: espalier.

 

Irrigation system: drip irrigation.

 

Harvest: grapes were hand harvested in small bins of 20 kgs.  Harvested on March April.

 

Limited production: 10.000 bottles.

 

Vineyard Location: ALTO VALLE CALCHAQUI, SALTA, FAR NW

 

ARGENTINA, Own 40 years old vineyards at 5900 feet above sea level.