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Alpasión Private Selection

Alpasión Private Selection red wine

This red wine is a blend that changes every year depending on the best grapes available.

The Alpasión Private Selection is a powerful, full-bodied wine, with complex aromas and great aging potential.

Aged for at least 18 months in French Bordeaux style barrels. This wine has notes of dark fruits, leather, forest floor and toasted oak. A wine that has the capacity of being enjoyed in its youth with decanting or cellard for decades.

Awards & Recognitions

Specification

Varietal:

Malbec, Syrah, Petit Verdot & Cabernet Franc.

Altitude:

1,200 meters above sea level.

Terroir:

The Chacayes, Uco Valley.

Trellising​:

High trellis, vertical system.

Density​:

6.250 plants / ha.

Yield​:

50 qq / ha.

Irrigation​:

Drip irrigation.

Soil​:

Alluvial, sandy loam, stony.

Soil Study​:

Pruning​:

“Double Guyot”

Vineyard management​:

Spring shoot thinning, cluster thinning after veraison, defoliation.

Harvest​:

100% By hand, using small plastic boxes (15 Kg) during the month of April.

Winemaker / Agronomist​:

Ezequiel Manoni.

Reception:

Directly at the sorting table. Use of gravity flow system, no pumps.

Fermentation:

Whole berries in small concrete vats.

Yeasts:

Indigenous.

Alcoholic Fermentation:

16 days at 28ºC (82,4ºF).

Maceration:

3 pumpovers per day, and 6 délestage total. 20 days of skin maceration.

Malolactic Fermentation:

100% natural at the end of May.

Aging:

100% aged in new French / Bordeaux oak barrels for 18 months.

Maturation:

Non-filtered. Natural cold stabilization.

Private Selection 2018

Private Selection 2019

Private Selection 2021

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