Four hands

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The four hands belong to two French winemakers, Vincent Wallard, former wine bar owner, and Emile Heredia, doyen of natural wine in Vendomois. Vincent journeyed throughout Argentina and Chile to share the experience of winemaking that Emile has, or to share the experience of other winemakers whom he intend to take to Argentina or to Chile, in order to spread the word about a different way to make wines, because everything is controlled in Latin America which largely takes its inspiration from the American approach - where the notion of terroir is just a marketing tool and not a reality. The culmination of this journey was the Cuatro Manos project.

Vinification 
The wine is fermented in a semi-carbonic maceration 'sandwich' between two layers of de-stemmed grapes in a single 120-hectolitre cement vat. After fermentation the free-run juice is blended, the resultant wine racked with a small amount of sulphur added and the wine kept in closed vats for four months. After one final racking the Malbec is bottled without filtration, fining or any added sulphur.

TASTING -ad hoc-

Deep purple red wine, non filtered. Bright, with tears, gliceric.

Medium intensity in the nose, clean with organic touches. Red and black fruit such as cranberries, blackberries, blackcurrant. Some spicy notes (black pepper). Hints of forest, humid earth, and red liquorice.

In the palate is a explotion of fruit, grapefruit, blackberry, cranberries. Red fruit (black cherry), some cocoa70%, liquorice, and medium+ finish with high alcohol.

The wine is dry, medium+ acidity, medium+ body, good volume. The tannins are medium, some fresh and greeny as well, for a 2014.

Good matching with bife de chorizo and dark cocoa sauce and hues of chilli.

The wine is in its moment of taste and drink, so it is an organic wine, natural and you don´t wait this evolution adn development. All structural compounds are integrated, rounded and in a perfect state to enjoy them.

POINTS

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