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.

VISIT FROM DENMARK

My importer from Denmark Christian Philipson came to visit our vineyard last week. Check out some of the pics he just sent me

ALPAMANTA WINES in BUENOS AIRES

From December there are 2 new venues in Buenos Aires offering our wines. Faena Hotel- Alpamanta Reserva Malbec 2007 and Parrilla Don Julio- Alpamanta Estate Malbec 2008

2009 FINAL BLENDS READY

On Thursday we made the final blends for our 2009 red wines- Alpamanta Reserva Malbec 2009, Alpamanta Estate Malbec 2009, Alpamanta Natal Malbec 2009 and Alpamanta Natal Cabernet Sauvignon 2009. Both Natal wines (without oak) will be bottled in february 2010, while the Estate in march/april before the 2010 harvest. We made an intense wine tasting for all wines with Alvaro & the team.

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