ALPAMANTA IN UK & US

Great news - we will soon enter two new markets, so we are now exporting to 6 countries !

VINANDINO 2009- 3 MEDALS

Our Alpamanta wines scored excellent results in the most important South American blind tasting OIV event. From 850 competing wines from 15 countries and an international jury composed by 35 experts Alpamanta won 1 Gold (Malbec Estate 2007) and 2 Silver (Malbec Estate 2008 & Mabec Reserva 2007) medals.

On november 24 th there will be an Awards wining event in Buenos Aires.

ANOTHER BIODYNAMIC WORKSHOP

Last week we finalized our biofertilizer and stored the new preparations 500, 501 & 504. Also we are now fighting the ants with some product from Brazil, dry oranges and a home made grilled ant recipee from the vineyard

CHARDONNAY 2009 READY

Our Alpamanta Natal Chardonnay 2009 is finally ready- we will bottle this wine next week and calculate to get a total of 13.000 bottles

WINES IN GERMANY

Alpamanta Estate Malbec & Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 arrived in Aachen today and our importer Nagel & Hoffbaur will be introducing both wines throughout Germany over the next few weeks

WINES TO CANADA

First wines in the Americas !
This week we will make our first shipment to British Columbia and Alberta in Western Canada. Let´s see how the Alpamanta Estate Malbec 2007 sells in this part of the world

SILVER MEDAL AT MUNDUSVINI

Alpamanta Estate Malbec 2007 was awarded among 6000 participating wines with the Silver Medal at Mundusvini 2009- the most important German wine competition. The Alpamanta Estate 2007 wines will be arriving to Germany this week and be launched on the German market next month.

APPLICATION OF BIODYNAMIC COMPONENTS ON VINEYARD

We prepared and applied both Fladen and Component 500 on the entire vines, thanks to the help of our Austrian trainee Stefan and our vineyard team.

BIODYNAMIC PASTE FOR TREES

To heal our olive and fruit trees from the rabbit bites and hail damages our team prepared a special recipe, called "Biodynamische Paste", which was brushed on all our

vineyard

BIODYNAMIC SEEDING

On a bitter cold winter day we started with our new little biodynamic park- Kamille, Brennessel, Lowenzahn, Baldrian seeds, all essential plants for our applications

BEST VALUES FROM ARGENTINA- PARKER 87 POINTS

Our first vintage wine Alpamanta Estate Malbec 2007 was selected together with 253 other wines as best values from Argentina (under $25 retail price) in the Wine Advocate.

These are the tasting notes from Jay Miller, who tasted the wine back in february 09:

"The 2007 Estate Malbec was produced from organically grown grapes. For the past year, the estate has been farming biodynamically. The wine was fermented with native yeasts and raised in 60% new French oak and 40% in tank.
Purple in color, the nose reveal earth notes, spice box, and black cherry. On the palate the wine is medium-bodied with some elegance and tasty flavors but could use more depth and concentration. Drink it over the next 6 years. "

AUSTRALIA- SECOND ORDER

This week we are shipping more Malbec Estate 2007 wines to our customer in Perth. This is the second order within 6 months !!

WINE LABELED & SHIPPED TO EUROPE

This week we shipped 5 pallets to Denmark and Germany, where we will start selling in september. During 2 days we were labeling and packing our wines and prepared also the cases for our upcoming shipment to Australia and Canada.

NEW PARTNER IN DENMARK

In july we signed a one year marketing agreement with the Danish importer Philipsonwine, which will represent us in Denmark. Our wines, including the Malbec Reserva 2007 will be shipped in the next few weeks and introduced in september

LARSSON TASTING- RESULTS

Sommelier World Champion 2007 Andreas Larsson published his Argentinean wine tasting results at VINEXPO in Bordeaux last june. Out of almost 200 wines tasted blind, Alpamanta Reserva Malbec 2007 was awarded the best Premium Malbec of the 2007 vintage and one of the 12 best overall.
Also the Estate Malbec 2007 got excellent results and was rated as one of the best Malbecs in its category:

2007 - ALPAMANTA RESERVA MALBEC -MENDOZA
Wild dark berries, some hints of truffle and smoke, very structured and
concentrated palate, dark fruit, silky tannins and layers of complex flavours, very long finish,
really good potential, should age very well.


2007 - ALPAMANTA ESTATE MALBEC- LUJAN DE CUYO
Pure and fruity nose, some floral hints and freshly crushed berries, well balanced
with a good freshness and crunchy dark fruit, fairly long.


For more details on all tasting results, please check out http://www.winesofargentina.org/tasted-larsson/WINE%20GUIDE%20argentina.pdf

FIRST DEMETER INSPECTION

On june 3rd we got our first biodynamic inspection with the aim to certify our vineyard DEMETER. If all goes according to plan we will become an officially recognised biodynamic vineyard in 2010.

ALPAMANTA MALBEC RESERVA 2007 READY

We have introduced our premium product of the 2007 harvest to the market. Only 3500 bottles of this 18 months new French oak stored Malbec are available, from which 800 bottles have already been sold. This wine has won the Bronce medal at this year's Argentinean Wine Awards event and a Gold Mnedal at the OIV competition "Malbec al Mundo"

PARTNERSHIP WITH NAGL & HOFFBAUR

We are proud to announce that we have signed a 3 years agreement to market the Alpamanta Estate and Reserva product line on an exclusive basis in Germany. From september onwards our wines will be available for the German wine lovers

2009 WINES

After meeting with our enologist team (Alvaro Espinoza) we are heading for the following wines

Alpamanta Estate Malbec - 1500 cases
Alpamanta Reserva Malbec- 500 cases
Alpamanta Estate Cabernet- 400 cases

We will also add a new product line without oak, which we will start selling in Q3 2009 with the following amounts and varietals at end customer price of US$ 9/bottle

Chardonnay- 1000 cases
Malbec- 1500 cases
Cabernet- 1000 cases

Please stay tuned for branding of this new wines

ALPAMANTA IN THE DANISH PRESS

Last weekend (june 7th) there was a long article on our wines in the Weekend edition of Berlinske Tidende magazine, Danish largest newspaper- if you do read Danish please look at the section of the article below:

VINEN FRA ANDES- fra Soren Frank

"Mens jeg venter på flyet mod vest senere på aftenen, harjeg turens
første møde med en vinproducent inde i Buenos Aires; Andrej Razumovsky,
som er født i Danmark af en østrigsk far med ukrainske aner
og dansk mor, men stadig taler flydende dansk, selv om han har tilbragt
det meste af sin opvækst i Østrig.
Andrej er egentlig en civilist fra lT-software-branchen, som kom til
Argentina i 2000 og blev lokalt gift, så da han for nogle år siden forlod sit
IT-job, besluttede han sammen med to venner at investere i den argentinske
vinbranche. Sammen købte og beplantede de 35 hektar for fire
år siden i Mendoza, i det sydlige Lujan de Cuyo. De tre partnere var fra
starten fast besluttet på at lave økologisk vin, så da denne dyrkningsform
trods gunstigt klima ikke ligefrem er udbredt i Argentina, trak
man den chilenske ønolog Alvaro Espinoza ind som konsulent. Spinoza
er kendt som vinmageren bag kooperativet Vifledos Organicos Emiliana
(hvis vine vi flere gange med held har anmeldt i Berlingskes lørdagsmagasin/
FRl), som er en af Sydamerikas lå helt biodynamiske producenter
og i øvrigt en af de største af slagsen overhovedet.
Første årgang for Alpamanta (som ifølge Razumovsky betyder terroir
på den originale indianske dialekt) er2007, som ikke overraskende med
så unge vinstokke generelt er til den lette side - de prøver, jeg smager
på 08, har allerede en del mere kød på kroppen. I 2009 regner Razumovsky
med at kunne lave 35.000 flasker, som med tiden kan vokse
til 100.000 - som dog stadig er en meget lille produktion i Argentina.
I dag er Alpamanta ved at blive lagt om til biodynamisk brug, hvilket
er medvirkende til, at Razumovsky helt overvejende satser på
eksport. "Det argentinske marked forstår ikke bio", som han
udtrykker det. "