Nose
Intensely perfumed with red flower notes, dried spices and wild herbs.
Palate
It shows a contrasting play between bright cherry and fragrant red flower notes with dried spices, wild herbs and a seductive undercurrent of earthy, smoky graphite.
Growing Conditions
This terroir has great oenological potential in Argentina. It consists of rocky soils composed by 60% of flattened, sub- angular stones with diameters ranging from 5 to 15 cm. Originated in igneous and sedimentary rocks, these soils consist of 96% of sand and 4% of silt. The soils have very low water retention capacity.
- Varietal: Malbec massal selection - own rooted.
- Year of plantation: 2000.
- Training system: VSP (Vertical Shoot Positioning) - bilateral cordon.
- Pruning: Spur pruning.
- Row orientation: North - South.
- Plantation density: 2.2 x 1.8 (2,475 plants/ Ha)
- Irrigation: Drip irrigation.
Winemaking
- 10% of whole clusters.
- Fermentation with native yeasts in 6000L French oak foudre.
- 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.