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Cabernet Sauvignon
Unmistakable thanks to the density of his(your) tannins possesses delightful fruit-bearing aromas, which awards a big body, solidly and simultaneously fragile on having savoured it. His violet tones are typical and with the aging, he acquires a major distinction and elegance.

The variety mendocina, it possesses an aroma to cassis, whereas the Salteño to peppers and that of Ríonegrino, to cranberry.

Traditionally, it is used to accompany red meats and stuffed pastas on piquant sauces or guizos seasoned in plenty. The grilled meats, there are his specialty for his characteristics organolépticas (color, smell, flavor).

 

Malbec
It is the excellent cepaje that it has chosen Argentina to identify in the world, obtaining big reknowledge as awards and medalles international. Introduced and cultivated thanks to the works of the hired one by the Argentine government, French agronomist (exile in Chile in these moments) Michel Aimé Pouget, who had the task of introducing this variant for the production of wines, breaking the standard of eatable grapes that only existed in our country in these moments.

In accordance with the area where the vines are cultivated, there will be the characteristics that will award him then to the wine. The area most strong and expanded in this type of culture, that of Maipú is without doubts, in the Province of Mendoza.

Holder of an average body, and an agreeable flavor, distinguishes his color purple. It possesses a texture that to the palate, gives a sensation of wildness and of light roughness.

Ideal partner for the red meats and the pastas (like spaghettis).

 



Tempranillo
It is a grape much sencible to plagues and that resists little to the high temperatures and conditions of drought, for it, one takes care of her with big care. It has his origins in Rioja, Spain, where it is the variety of major quantity of planted hectares.

Possessor of a sweet and frugal flavor, supports the balance of sugar, color and acidity. I matched to his characteristics by the area where it is cultivated, it is traditionally a fundamental piece at the time of accompanying plates of the Mediterranean kitchen.

 

Merlot
Original of the region of Bordeaux, France, where his vines are cultivated in big quantity, is the second variety most requested internationally, after Cavernet Sauvignon.

It contains a proper elegance and gentleness inherited from his stained grapes, which award him a reddish color and a sheen of few intensity. In Mendoza his principal productive poles are in Luján de Cuyo, Maipú (Cruz de Piedra).

He accompanies to varieties marine and caught as the salmon and the seafood, as well as also to light meats or without fats. Delightful to accompany also cheeses piquant or brought in flavored well.

 

Syrah

Es a millennial variety, of which his origins have no skylights, since there exist different types of versions opposed on his birth. On the one hand, it him assumes to have begun to take place in the region of Shiraz, in Persia, which would have been transported from there to the Gaul. Different regions exist in the continents, in which wines Syrah are prepared. The places more important sound: France, Australia and in warm areas of Argentina (in addition to other countries of the American continent like there are Chile and the United States).

Proprietor of a flavor to fruits unmistakable, is refined, tastily and lightly in body. The Syrah of our latitudes, it is ideal to accompany roast chicken, hamburgers and pizzas. The European Syrah, it will be rather suitable if they want to accompany meals flavored well (or of the piquant type), and rather dry meats.

 

Pinot Noir
It is an international original variety of Burgundy (France). In Mendoza we find her in the area of Agrelo (Luján de Cuyo) and in the Valle de Uco. These grapes need a clearly cold climate for his suitable maturation.

It is a very thin wine, of average body, which is enjoyed when it is savoured, with aroma to cinnamon, and it has the rather slightly intense color, in compensation of the French wines, which characteristic is the sheen in his vines.

 

White Wines

Chardonnay
White, original vine of Burgundy, France. It is cultivated also in all the wine areas of the world. In Mendoza, he is in San Rafael, Tupungato and Maipú.

On having been aged in casks of oak, he acquires distinctive qualities of aroma and flavor of any another variety and for it he is one of the big ones chosen internationally.

It has golden reflexes that complement his yellow greenish color. The pineapple, the banana and the melon gift typical in his smell. It is a wine that, on having tasted it, manages to leave his flavor in the mouth.

He accompanies perfectly to white meats, caught and seafood; being a salmon an ideal complement for this exquisite wine.

 

Torrontés
It is a vine cultivated in Salta, Argentina, and component of the white Argentine wines. It would cause of Galicia, Spain, it had his depletion long ago in the Iberian peninsula, and it supports his validity also in La Rioja, Mendoza and San Juan, in Argentina, but it is It jumps the one that stands out as for quality of production of these grapes.

Light flavor to orange rind, with smells of pineapple, peach and a touch of honey, they will do of this yellow wine ténue, an enjoyment on having savoured it. It is a wine of aromatic characteristics, exhuberante and elegantly.

It is excellent for aperitif and he accompanies very well coated in breadcrumbs salteñas, Thai and aromatic meal. One tends to think that it is national but it originated in the French Burgundy.

 

Viognier
Although it assumes his birth in the current Bosnia, also it is linked to the region of Rhone in France, where it had the possibility of being developed widely. It is a variety of grapes of recent appearance on the Argentine market.

There exist at present approximately 200 cultivated hectares of this variety, of which 110 are in Mendoza and the rest in the nearby province of San Juan.

On having been "novel" in our way, it gives very young wines. It uses much lower temperatures of cultures than other targets. In his flavor and body, it possesses a rather vigorous structure, with fruit-bearing aromas to damask and peach; and floral others as the magnolia and the woodbine.

He is a good partner to serve with plates as a good grillado salmon or trout, sauces of seafood and cheeses.

 

Chenin
O also called Pinot blanc, has his cultures in San Rafael (south mendocino) and his origins in France. It possesses a select and characteristic aroma to peach, damask and green apple.

Proprietor of a gentleness and freshness, accompanies salads, roast eggplants, caught of sea and Parmesan.

 

Sauvignon Blanc
Of origin located in the Southwest of France, this vine that etymologically owes his name to a derivation of: "sauvage" (savage) and " Vignon " (Vineyard); it is basically that: the adaptation of a wild vineyard French (half note).

In Mendoza, we find it is cultivated in Luján of Whose, Junín and Maipú.

Typical are, his perfume to cassis, valerian and musk aromatically speaking, and an intense aroma to pink grapefruit if about fruit trees it talks each other.

It has a rather greenish yellow color, being his thinnest grapes after the Chardonnay. He is a proprietor of a particular excellent and delicate dryness, because of his delicate and complex making.

He accompanies very well to plates as caught to the native (without sauces or aggregations), cheeses or pastas (as a few sorrentinos with some soft sauce or tagliatelle with pesto or sauce).



Riesling
It is a Traditionally German grape or of Central Europe, which has not less than 600 years of existence in accordance with the information that has managed to be compiled. His production is quite scarce in Argentina.

It needs from high places to mature and produces fresh and young wines, which become interesting for his aromas to honey or apple. There ages with big quality and elegance, up to 20 years which turns it into one of the wines that can preserve major quantity of time without losing quality.

It is a wine low in alcoholic graduation and with balance of acidity and exquisite aroma. A very interesting proposal for those that want to prove something different.

Ideal complement for caught (trout), meats (as the piglet) and you graze.

 

Semillón
Original of Bordeaux, France, the production of this variety was considered to be a wine of table and of low quality. But in the course of time it demonstrated that it is not like that, reinvidicandose and demonstrating his excessive characteristics that more exquisítos appreciated by his longevity turn into one of the wines. At present, 892 cultivated hectares of this variety exist in Mendoza (generally in the Vale of Uco), of the whole of 1027 that exist in Argentina.

This variety is used also to produce varietales, giving excellently results. It is basically sweet and of creamy consistency and he acquires an interesting flavor on having been stored and having been aged.

His characteristics pregnantes an aroma gives them it is especiado, fruit tree and rather sweetly.

He is an accompanist of stuffed pastas with soft sauces or dry pastas with intense sauces and meats as the piglet


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