Miercoles, 3 Septiembre, Vinos de Mendoza (III)

Second winery was Renacer. This one was a bit bigger, with a little pond to store the water for the vines, to be distributed later. One interesting thing is that as in Mendoza it hardly rains the water must be channeled from the mountains snow melt. In order to divide it among the different wineries they have to take turns, so today I get water at x time, tomorrow it is your turn at y time...

Here are some vines with the anti-slate covering off...

Comming from a Chilean owner with italian family one of the product based on the "amarone" technique which means that they leave the grape to rest for a while on shelves (see behind me) until they become raising-like and then they make wine out of that. These guys play with the words and call this line of wine Enamore. It is funny because it tastes a bit of some of the strong liquors we have in spain based on this same quite of thing...

AS you can see they same big tanks, but in bigger quantities and some wood barrels that they dont use...

And of course, off we went to the tasting room!

We did a bit of a game to start with. There are 3 regions around Mendoza: Lujan de Cuyo, valle del Uco (to the south) and "the East" (milder weather). Each one may produce the same type of wine, the same grape, however, due to the soil and weather, each regions wine ends up with a different taste. So initially we tasted three types of young Malbec (out of the barrel, not finished yet), one from each of the regions and it was amazing to discover that actually the taste and smell are noticeably different! In their winery they actually mis them for some lines of wine, varying the percentages (even per year, there is a guy who decides this kind of thing, imagine the job of tasting, shaping, tasting again...) to make the best wine. So we had a try by measuring some of these wines in the proportions we wanted and creating our special type in a pipette!

Afterwards we continued with some of their "real wines".

One of the wines we tasted was a Sauvinong Blanc, decidedly my most favourite type of white, at least outside from Spain! This one was great!!!

Another thing that is great and tragic at the same time were the prices, this one was something like 4-5 GBP... and it was so good!!!!!!!!!!!!! God, do I wish I could take 100 bottles with me...