2024 El Montanista Viejas Tintas, Calingasta Valley, Argentina Stein planted from massale selection 60-70

planted from massale selection 60-70 years ago

thus maximizing concentration and sweetness of fruit and skin to juice ratios

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the varieties are generally interplanted

2024 El Montanista Viejas Tintas, Calingasta Valley, Argentina Stein planted from massale selection 60-70Old Italian varieties: Barbera, Bonarda, Greco Nero, Rabosso Veronese, Cardin, and Freisa. From 80 year old vines in the Paraje Hilario at 1500m elevation in the foothills of the Andes. The soils are quartz rich colluvium a mix of rock types and sediments deposited from the mountains above. The grapes were harvested by hand in 15kg baskets, then crushed in the same baskets before depositing with the whole clusters in concrete, where they fermented