SAUVIGNON BLANC

lots of rain & atypical cold weather in Mendoza is delaying Sauvignon Blanc harvest, on Monday we will know more on the technical data & ripening process

SAUVIGNON BLANC TECHNICAL DATA

First harvest preparations underway. Today we got our first lab analysis data for our Sauvignon Blanc

Brix- 14,4
Sugar 134
Acidity 11,2
PH 3,01
Alcohol- 7,8

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