El Hijo Prodigo – Malbec Riserva – 2017

One of the most widespread grapes on the continent, Malbec, which originates in the Bordeaux area of France, has found here the optimum conditions in which to express its full potential. A grape that prefers warm climates, it has been able to exalt itself in colder climates, demonstrating a new side to its primary characteristics. The grapes come from Consulta, Valle de Uco, where the vines, planted at over 1000 m above sea level and trained on guyot trellises, rest on deep soil. After a targeted selection process, the grapes are vinified cold for two days, then for three weeks in contact with the skins, with daily pumping over of the must, ending with 18 months of ageing in Allier barrels. The result is an enveloping wine that is the fruit of another world, with aromas of red fruit and vegetables with spicy touches, good minerality and tasty acidity that pervade a long and very fresh finish.

  • Producer El Hijo Prodigo
  • Name: Malbec Riserva
  • Grape Variety: 100% Malbec
  • Vintage: 2017
  • Alcohol Content: 14,2%
  • Bottle Size: 750ml

Productive Notes: fermentation on the skins for three weeks with pumping over followed by refinement in Allier barrels 18 months.

Wine naturally contains solphites

35,00€

1 in stock

Description

South America has proved to be a continent with extraordinary wine-growing capacities due to its climatic conditions and the centuries-old winemaking tradition of some countries. One of these is Argentina, in the city of Mendoza in the Valle de Uco on the edge of the Andes, an extreme place in every sense of the word at an altitude of 600/1700 metres where the vines have reached unique levels of adaptation that are transmitted in the wines. It is here that Alessandro Speri, an oenologist who grew up in Valpolicella, has embarked on a new project with the intention of conquering a new frontier of wine. On 10 hectares he cultivates varieties such as Malbec and Tempranillo at La Consulta, a terroir with permeable and poor soils which, together with the Andean climate, allow the grapes to ripen and concentrate perfectly. The watchword is “Elegance”, which is achieved through vinification and ageing in which the perfect combination of grape/barrique is sought, maintaining fragrance and structure in the wine in a subtle but prodigious balance. Strong temperature fluctuations, lots of daytime sunshine and little annual rainfall have prevented forced treatments, disease and lush quantities in the harvests while maintaining high quality. A new world for oenology, in every sense.

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