Amalaya Malbec Blend 2006

Food Matching Note :
Ideally paired with red meat, pasta with tomato sauce and cheese.

Tasting Note :
This is a glittering deep red wine, with purple tinges. It offers fruity aromas, resembling cherries and raspberries, and a subtle vanilla scent coming from barrel aging. A spicy, intense and sweeping wine, easy to drink, but yet with a long persistent mouth. Tannins are mild and round.

Vinification Note :
The vineyard is located at Alto Valle Calchaquí which is 1700-2500 meters above sea level.
The yield is around 7 tons per hectare. Drip irrigation is used and the grapes are hand harvested.
The winemaking process involves a slow alcoholic fermentation at a low temperature, using selected yeasts.
Maceration lasted 18 to 20 days. 75% of the juice underwent malolactic fermentation in stainless steel tanks,
while the remaining 25% fermented in French oak barrels. Once the fermentation process was completed,
30% of the wine was aged in French oak barrels. It was clarified by means of egg white obtained
from our biodynamic farm. There is a limited production of 330.000 bottles

Detailed Vinification Note :
Wine making process: slow alcoholic fermentation at a low temperature, using selected yeasts. Maceration lasted 18 to 20 days. 75% of the juice underwent malolactic fermentation in stainless steel tanks, while the remaining 25% fermented in French oak barrels. Once the fermentation process was completed, 30% of the wine was aged in French oak barrels. It was clarified by means of egg white obtained from our biodynamic farm.