2022 Viña Cobos "Vinculum" Chardonnay, Mendoza, Argentina

The grapes are fermented using native yeasts

the juice ferments at cool temperatures with indigenous yeasts in cement and steel tanks with around 12 days of maceration

Twice daily pumpovers in small batch stainless steel fermenters

much of it coming from old-vines

it’s crisp and elegant with fine bubbles

then aged in a combination of 500-700L French oak barrels

Middle Miocene

Beside our father

After the primary fermentation

many of the grower-producers are selling all the Champagne they can make

which for many years were considered classical texts on the subject

16 months’ agiing in oak barrel