by Wine Explorer | Feb 18, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Well, we had planned on regaling you with an explainer on co-fermentation and why its “ancient science,” once confined to the Côte Rôtie, is enjoying a revival in the new world. But that’ll have to wait till next week. This week we find ourselves marooned and thirsty,...
by Wine Explorer | Feb 11, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
“A stallion of wine – a little wild – but kind and generous on the inside,” says Julien about Calchaquí winemaker Augustín Lanús’ contribution to your 2022 Calchaqui Collection. Julien goes deep within this “muscular and powerful” wine to find raspberry, white pepper,...
by Wine Explorer | Jan 28, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Looking out at the Calchaquí’s purple desert mountains covered in cacti, you might miss a little patch of green at the bottom of a canyon - the Quebrada de San Lucas. There, by a small creek, under the shade of fig and walnut trees, bife roasts over red hot coals. The...
by Wine Explorer | Jan 14, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
At the southern edge of the Calchaquí Valley, in the town of Tolombón, the malbec vines are over half a century old. Each year at harvest (our spring) they select only grapes from the best plots for a wine called Atypico (91 pts – Atkin). After fermentation in...
by Wine Explorer | Jan 7, 2022 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Grapes from a single vineyard at 8,694 feet puts Agustín Lanús’ malbec Salvaje among the highest wines we’ve ever sourced (there are but a handful of higher operational vineyards in the world). We told you, at the end of last year, of how Agustín ferments Salvaje in a...
