WINERY: El Enemigo
GRAPE VARIETY: Cabernet Franc
VINEYARD LOCATION: Agrelo, Mendoza, Argentina.
Altitude
930 masl / 3.051 ft High density vineyard (10.000 plants per hectare).
Type of Soil
Clay.
Vinification
Fermentation in barrel, average temperature: 23°C 172°F. Cold maceration for 3 days. Average maceration 10 days. 20% whole bunch. French oak barrels 2nd and 3rd use. 5 different harvest times (1,5 months between the first and the last one).
Aging
15 months in 100-year-old foudre.
Alcohol: 13.5% vol
Acidity / pH: 6.3 / 3.05
Partner and Winemaker: Alejandro Vigil – Bodega Aleanna
Harvest Report 2019
We call this harvest «el Año Mendocino.» the Mendoza year. After a small, cool vintage in 2017, which we refer to as «El Año Bordelés» (the Bordeaux Year) and a small, very cool and rainy 2016: «el Año Bourguignon» (the Burgundian year). we finally got a vintage that is classically Mendozan: dry, cool, sunny and with moderate yields in every region from the lowest to the highest altitudes.
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Wine from Mendoza Province