El Montañista 'Corte des Blancas' 2024

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Winemakers Pancho Bugallo and Nuria Añó Gargiulo, the couple behind El Montañista, started farming vines and making wine in Argentina's Calingasta Valley in 2011, fresh out of university. 10 years on, in 2021, the opportunity to farm and make wine from a very special vineyard of 80+ year-old heritage varieties, called Paraje Hilario, prompted them to start El Montañista. This vineyard sits at 1500m of elevation in quartz-rich foothills of the Andes and is planted to a mix of Torrontés Sanjuanino, Torrontes Mendocino, along with small quantities of Malvasia and Maticha. After years of bland white wines from Argentina, tasting like thin, inoculated Sauvignon Blanc and nothing else, we’re so happy to have this svelte, complex, rocky, spectacular white wine from a genuinely heritage vineyard.

DETAILS

Appellation

Valle de Calingasta
Category

White Wine
Country

Argentina
Feature

Organic/Biodynamic
Grape

Mendocino

Sanjuanino

Torrontes
Region

San Juan

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