DEMETER Certificate

Conscious about the nature and enviroment Alpamanta started planting the wines without using any chemicals o fungicides. As an additional step and in order to be more proactive for creating a own Terroir the winery started to work with BD applications and compost on the whole vineyard since 2008 and are today the only biodynamic DEMETER certified vineyard in Mendoza.
DEMETER is the official international certification for biodynamic agricultural products. An incentive controlling process insures strict compliance with the International Demeter Production and Processing Standards, as well as applicable organic regulation in the various countries.

Cement Tanks

Since April 2010 Alpamanta is one of the first Argentinean wineries using special cement tanks, produced in Nomblot, France. These tanks provide a new innovative process of fermentation in a biodynamic way. They only contain natural materials which favors an internal movement of the wine without chemical maipulation. Furthermore, they garuntee low energy consumption throughout excellent temperature retention.

NEW WINE IN DOWN UNDER

Our importers in Australia made their third order in 12 months and for the first time the Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Malbec 07, which won the Bronce Medal earlier this year at the Argentinean Wine Awards, will be introduced to the high end restaurant market in Down Under.

NEW SHIPMENT TO US

We will process our largest order so far with 5 pallets of the just recently bottled Natal product line. Over the next months there will be a total of 7 wines from 3 vintages in more than 25 states in the USA.

HARVEST 2010

On april 23 rd we harvested our last grapes, in total 182.000 kgs of 8 different white and red garpe varietes from our 90 acres vineyard in Ugarteche. On Saturday we then had our classical End of harvest asado with lots of meat at the Quincho

Article in Vinotheque Magazine, Japan

A four page article on Biodynamic practices in Argentina was published this month in Japan's most prestigeous wine magazine Vinotheque with several references and photographs from our vineyard.

2009 TOP PREMIUM BLENDS

After tasting all our 07,08 and 09 vintages we defined our final blends for our Estate and Reserva 2009 wines

TASTING THE FIRST 2010 WINES

On april 1st we tasted all our upcoming 2010 wines together with Alvaro. While the red wines & Chardonnay have still not finalized fermentation, the Sauvignon Blanc is ready and looks very promissing

RED GRAPES HARVEST

On Easter week we started to harvest our Grapes, starting with Merlot, Petit Verdot and Syrah. Next week we will continue with our premium grapes Malbec and finalise the week after with Cabernet Sauvignon.

VISIT OF DANISH TV

Niels & Jan from DRTV visited us for the day to broadcast a program on "Danish wineproducers abroad".

NATAL 2009 RED WINES READY

We bottled our Natal Malbec (18000 units) and Cabernet (12000) last week. All of these fresh wines will soon hit the US market

WINEMAKERS DINNER AT NOMA

On march 25th our wines were presented to 50 guests at one of world's top restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark. Our family was represented by Tommer, Anne, Stine & Vibe and our friends by Georgina & Thomas

Stand at Prowein

We had for the first time a stand on one of the major wine fairs. Together with several outstanding wine producers from the world we had our 2007 wines presented at Nagel & Hoffbaur, our German importer in hall 6

Article in Magazyn Wino in Poland

Alpamanta was covered by the most important Polish wine magazine. If you happen to read Polish, please check out www.magazywino.pl/pl/52_monografie/142_regiony_winiarskie/298_argentyna/299_argentyna_nie_tylko_malbec/598_alpamanta.html

GUESTS from HUNGARY

Silvia and Tomas Kis, wine importers from Budapest came with their 11 month old babygirl and had a lovely dinner (asado of course) with our children at our terrace in Palermo Viejo. We tasted Chardonnay Natal 09, Malbec Estate 08, Malbec Reserva 07 and finished the evening with Malbec Reserva 08.

CHARDONNAY HARVEST

On Thursday we started harvesting our Chardonnay grapes even though we got some rain interruption on Friday morning, complying with the BD calendar.

CHARDONNAY- PREPARING HARVEST

We are getting closer to our second and last white grapes harvest 2010

The data as of march 4th

Brix- 23.6 %
Acidity- 6,55
Sugar- 236 gr/l
PH- 3,56
Alcohol- 14

CHARDONNAY GRAPES

Selecting the finest grapes and crushing to analyse all relevant data for the perfect harvest timing

CHARDONNAY- UPCOMING HARVEST

We are getting ready to harvest our second white grape Chardonnay. The latest data as of today:

Brix- 23

Acidity- 6,3

Sugar- 229

PH- 3,62

Alcohol- 13,7

SAUVIGNON BLANC 2010- FACTS

These are the first data we got from our 1 week old Sauvignon Blanc white wine, harvested on february 19th:

Brix- 22,1
Sugar - 218,9
Acidity -6,9
PH- 3,26
Alcohol- 12,8-13,2

WINES AVAILABLE IN THE UK

From march 2010 all our 2007 wines are available for sale in the UK.
Matthew Jukes, wine correspondent for Daily Mail and buyer for Bibendum restaurant in London made the following review on Alpamanta 07 wines in the Quintessentially Wine, the world's foremost exclusive private members wine club:
"They are the classiest Argentinean reds I have ever tasted. I adore all 3 wines, as they are not too oaked and not too alcoholic. The power and length are completely in check and it is the balance above all which is utterly perfect. I perhaps sound surprised- and I am. There is a level of skill and confidence here which I occassionaly see in the very top Californian reds and also in Australia's finest, but I have never sensed this level of composure and talent in Chile or Argentina."

NEW SHIPMENT TO US

Two pallets were sent to Virgina, including all our 2007 wines and for the first time Estate Malbec 2008 and Natal Chardonnay 2009. Our importer WH importer plans to sell these wine in more than 33 states

ALPAMANTA ESTATE CABERNET 2007- BRONCE MEDAL AT AWA 2010

We won our first award with the Alpamanta Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 at the annual wine competition organised by Wines of Argentina

Tanzer tasting notes

Stephen Tanzer just published his yearly review on the Argentinean wines and selected 2 of our wines as top of his list this year.

Alpamanta Estate Malbec 2008- Bright medium ruby, Dark fruits, smoked meat, nutty oak, coffee and a whiff of truffle on the slightly porty nose. Fat and sweet with flavours of coffee, truffle and game lifted by sound acidity. Not exactly a subtle style but not cooked. The sweet, pliant fruit lingers nicely on the back end, where the tannins are supple and ripe.

Alpamanta Reserva Malbec 2007- Full medium ruby. Complex aromas of plum, currant, smoke, coffee, chocolate and truffle.