Palate
Crystalline purity with lush dark cherry and raspberry compote, roses, violets and wild thyme. Lively freshness and firm structure, all wrapped up in a silky and glossy, chalk-powdery, textural coating. A real class act from this cool climate, high- altitude Gualtallary vineyard. The sky is the limit.
Growing Conditions
The soils of this amazing micro-terroir present a first sandy layer reaching to a depth of 120 cm (4’) below the surface, which lies on a second layer of rounded stones with significant contents of calcium carbonate. The soils have very little water retention capacity.
- Varietal: Malbec massal selection - Rootstock Kobber 5 BB.
- Year of plantation: 2004.
- Training system: VSP (Vertical Shoot Positioning) Bilateral cordon.
- Pruning: Spur pruning.
- Row orientation: North - South.
- Plantation density: 2.20 x 1.3 (3,461 plants/ Ha)
- Irrigation: Drip irrigation.
Winemaking
- Destemming.
- Fermentation with native yeasts in 100 hl concrete vat.
- Punching-down 3 times a day during fermentation for 4 weeks.
- Pneumatic pressing.
- Racking into 300L new French oak barrels, natural malolactic fermentation and ageing for 18 months.
- Bottled unfiltered.
Aging
18 months in new French oak barrels.
