A delightful winery to visit for lunch and a tasting SOLO CONTIGO Highlights include their delicious white blends and Sauvignon Blanc GIMENEZ RIILIįamily winery and the first established in The Vines’ winemakers’ village. Etherial and juicy wines BLANCHARD Y LURTONĪndres Blanchard and Francois Lurton’s boutique brand. Excellent spot for dinner too VER SACRUMĪn exciting boutique producer focused on Mediterranean blends with Garnacha as a key variety. The Michelini family’s Los Chacayes outpost with a garden of biodynamic vines and a superb restaurant overlooking them THE VINES OF MENDOZAĪn impressive wine hotel, vineyard estate and winery making wines for some 220 private vineyard owners. Try their excellent white blends and top Los Chacayes Malbec SUPERUCO Part of The Vines of Mendoza winemakers’ village PIEDRA NEGRAįrancois Lurton’s landmark winery and estate and still one of the key producers in Los Chacayes. One of the modern pioneers of red Rhone blends in Argentina and excellent quality too. Try the Enzo Bianchi Gran Malbec CASA DE UCOĪ stunning hotel, vineyard and winery far towards the foothills with a range of delightful wines with Alberto Antonini as the consultant CORAZON DEL SOL As is the case right across Argentina, Malbec is the local star and Los Chacayes Malbec tends to be filled with bright red fruit aromas with good acidity and firm, structured tannins.Ī notable family winery in Argentina with a large estate in Los Chacayes (as well as San Rafael). Los Chacayes also produces a range of red varieties with Mediterranean varieties (Garnacha, Syrah and Mourvèdre) performing particularly well, as well as Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. There are some excellent white wines from the region - I’m particularly partial to its Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and white Rhône blends. Its great diversity means that Los Chacayes is suitable for a wide range of varieties. And all this within a 15-kilometre radius! What is more, there are also diverse alluvial and colluvial soils with granite, sand, clay, boulders, and metamorphic and volcanic rocks. There are over 700 metres in difference between the highest- and lowest-altitude sites, which in turn make for climatic differences, with sites ranging from moderately warm to extremely cool-climate (from Winkler III to Winkler I). This means that, while it isn’t an enormous area, it is quite a diverse region. The GI, which was established in 2017, was formed not on the basis of ‘terroir’, but using the legal boundary.
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