Torrontes is a highly flavoured variety. And as is so often the case with quite expressive varieties, a little maceration time is also worthwhile with Torrontes. "Not much at all, says Lucas Pfister from 40/40, a few days are enough. It's just about adding a few alternative flavours to its floral notes and integrating them into a solid structure." Lucas therefore macerates for three days, then carefully presses the wine and ferments it spontaneously. It is then aged for 12 months in two used French barriques (there are only 500 bottles of these in total). Before bottling, the wine is coarsely filtered and minimally sulphurised.
Incidentally, the grapes come from vines planted in 1963, which grow ungrafted (without rootstocks) in sandy soils at just under 900 metres above sea level and are cultivated organically and by hand.
Data sheet
- Grape varieties: Torrontes
- Vineyards: In Ugarteche, 890 meters above sea level, sand/clay soils, ungrafted vines
- Harvest: Manually
- Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts
- Ageing: 12 months in french oak
- Filtration: no
- SO₂: < 35mg/l
- Alcohol: 11,5 % vol.
- Closure: natural cork
- Drinking temperature: 10-12°C
- Perfect time of consumption: from now – 2026
- Content and price per liter: 0,75 l/(€24,87/l)
- All winegrowers listed by vinonudo work in their vineyards with compost, organic fertilizers and natural preparations and do not use herbicides, pesticides or artificial fertilizers.
