TERROIR’S FEATURES
Varietal composition: 100% Malbec
Estate location: Vista Flores, Valle de Uco, Mendoza, Argentina.
Altitude: 1250 meters a.s.l.
Vineyard orientation: north-south.
Grape-wine density: 8000 plants/ha.
Growing system: simple spurred cordon.
WINEMAKING AND AGING
Yield: 70 ql/ha.
Harvest period: april.
Harvest kind: hand picking.
Alcoholic fermentation: steel tanks. Fermentation temperature: 25-27°C. Fermentation period: 18 days at controlled temperature.
Grape-skin maceration period: 14 days at controlled temperature.
Malolactic fermentation: french barriques. Aging in barrique: 14 months inside french allier new barriques.
Aging in the bottle: 10 months.
Total aging period: 24 months.
TASTING NOTES
Color: ruby red intense colour with violet shades, impenetrable.
Nose: complex nose with intense notes of red fruits, ripe prune combined with spicy flavours, black pepper, vanilla.
Taste: rich taste, full and wrapping, great structure and good persistence with sweet and mature tannin melting with slight notes of tobacco and chocolate.