Dear Argentinean wine freaks, (Argentinsk vin freak)
(sounds much better than to say ´members’, isn’t it?)
I mean, think again: Member could be anything, and specially if you go along with many different wines form this planet…that you could be a member of, but when we speak Argentina wines, and, further more, our own wine club import, there amigo, you speak up from the renamed zones of Valle de Uco, Lujan de cuyo, Maipu, Cruz de Piedra. Yeah, it may not say anything to you. So let me try another way: Grab the first scent of the morning dew across the Andes at a height of over 1500 mtrs, watch to your rigth and a Condor may be showing off its wingspan 4 meters above you! Look up, and the exuberant beauty of the mountains will take your breath away, and you start wondering what are you doing seating in the office. Breath again and the same dew starts to bring out its deep, bitter sweet perfum from the stocks, look to the left and suddenly they are, you see them at the end of January blooming with this incredible violet colour, the yeast stuck to the skin promising a natural fermentation. Touch them and softly they will reveal to your eyes slowly but surely, why and how mother nature has chosen this spot of the planet to bring to you the finest, refine, brutal, complex, soft, tender, spicy, scented incredible overlooked and underestimated grape:Malbec.
My friends: (and i mean this!) Get a grip and face it. We are making history, and you are part of it. The beauty of this little friend of mine (and yours:)) with her violet dress, very fit and thin skin, needs special care and attention. Love factor. Not only very demanding weather conditions, but constant monitoring against all sort of threats.This grape, which during endless time was a secondary player, is coming back good time form the hands of daring winemakers from home, Mendoza.
She will be plain full, strait, in her “teenage” years, You see her coming towards your glass with this violet, almost black color. She is drest up for success. Pour a bit of it, she will stick to the glass and her legs are long and lasting, you see their form with these curves, like drawing the Andes. Her body is consistent, you just can’t avoid to give her the look of: ‘Hej, babe’, I’m getting closer because you just look different. Like the terroir of Argentina
You get curious, put your nose close to this pretty girl which just came to the party. Think again, we are on the right track, young, dressed up to kill and you have the inner desire to get to know her. She passes just next to you, and her scent is strongly peculiar, you don’t really know what perfume she has on, and you get closer again, and here we go. Spicy, some black pepper present, berries, cherries, and hints of dark chocolates, you know the ones with over 90 percent cacao, that kind. You wonder…jeah, good time, we have now two things to be curious about: She looks good, and her perfume is something to talk about. You want to taste this! How it will be? You want a kiss, the prettiest girl of the party is looking at you, talking to you, she has planted the seed of curoisity on you…’Houston, we have a problem’. Thats why EU wine producers are running to buy off lands in my country. If you cant win, buy them
The first kiss is intense, will invade your mouth with a bit brutal yet harmonic strenght. Remember your first kiss? You really didn’t know what to do?? The alcohol is present, and the tannins are biting you, a bit bitter and some nice acidity there. The kiss will just take over all your thirsty mouth with high speed (not foreplay here) and will leave you with a dry touch, yet heavy and round. And you just bloody know it. If this girl is already kissing like this now, the future looks good.
The malbec grape has the ability to evolve beautifully, though the aging this wine becomes more and more yummi! and I will keep you informed about this.
Since this is the first release I have made about my beloved wine describing it from my soul, I feel I need to express a comment about the sex of my malbecquita. I hope that nobody gets offended here, because of course for me malbequita for me in my soul is a woman, but I do understand that the malbeck attraction for others might easier be translated into a male character. So I hope no offense will be taken for me presenting the form of my attraction to this wine.
Are we cool?
Any feedback is highly appreciated.. Let me see your faces around here and we will chat all about this lovely girl…after all she’s in my blood
Argentinsk vin import. We love what we do. And we do it because we love it. That’s the difference
Want to have your say??
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Kære Argentinsk vin-entusiater,
Valle de Uco, Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu, Cruz de Pedra – måske ikke lokaliteter, der får klokkerne til at ringe i første omgang. Så lad mig prøve på en anden måde: Morgendug i Andesbjergene – alt er tyst her 1.500 meter over havoverfladen. Over dit hoved flyver en kondor lydløst på trods af sit gigantiske vingefang. Himlen er blå, luften kold og januars solstråler kærtegner de tunge violette vindruer på grønne stokke i horisonten. Pludselig er det klart, hvorfor naturen har valgt dette sted på planeten som hjemsted for den fine, komplekse, blide, krydrede, voldsomt oversete og heftigt undervurderede drue – Malbec.
Malbec har i mange år været anden prioritet blandt feinschmeckere verden over – men nu er hun helt i front! Driftige og dristige vinbønder i min hjemegn Mendoza, Argentina har taget udfordringen op og dyrker den krævende drue til absolut perfektion.
En smuk kvinde kræver kærlighed og opmærksomhed. Hendes kjole er violet, huden tynd – men lad dig ikke narre af hendes sarte ydre. Hun vokser op under barske vejrforhold, men kræver naturligvis afskærmning og beskyttelse.
Hun er mørk – næsten sort – og smyger sig på indersiden af glasset med kurver der efterligner bjerglandskabet, hvor hun voksede op. Duften af druen er berusende – ukendt – ændrer sig hele tiden. Krydret, sort peber, røde bær, chokolade af den rige slags … Hun kysser intenst. Alkoholen bider dig blidt. Du drikker grådigt og efterlades med antydningen af tørhed i munden – men på samme tid en afrundet smag af tyngde. Det første kys lover godt for fremtiden!
Som I forstår, vil Malbec altid for mig være en smuk kvinde – men jeg hører hellere end gerne din mening – og lytter til dine tanker – om vindruens væsen.
Kig ned på baren for yderligere lidenskabelig vinformidling – jeg glæder mig til at se dig.
Vi har Malbeck i blodet
