Malbec 'Los Amantes'

• Malbec
• Sourced from an organic small plot of just over 1HA, in the southern section of the Jardín Altamira vineyard, located in Paraje Altamira (Uco Valley), at 1,200 meters above sea level
• Top soil is comprised of silt with dissolved limestone and large granite rocks with limestone
• Hand harvested
• Fermented with indigenous yeasts for 25 days in concrete vats, with no epoxy and no sulfites, 15% whole cluster and at 26ºC
• Aged in untoasted 3,500L French oak founders for 15 months
• Gently filtered before bottling, and then aged for 12 months in bottle prior to release

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