CHARDONNAY PREMIUM Staphyle 2020

Agrelo, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza

Notas de cata

Pale with green glints. The nose shows peach, pear and apple alongside tropical hints of pineapple and banana and a touch of meadow flowers. The palate is rounded and harmonious with good volume, lifted by citrus acidity, and finishes clean and fruity.

Marida con

• Grilled chicken
• Grilled prawns
• River fish such as trout in butter
• Artichokes sautéed in butter
• Poultry in cream sauce

De dónde viene

Agrelo is a district of Luján de Cuyo, one of Mendoza's oldest wine areas, lying just south of the city at the foot of the Andes. The climate is dry and sunny, so every vineyard here depends on irrigation. This Chardonnay comes from young vines, nine years old at the time, trained on a pergola – the traditional high canopy in Argentina, whose leaves shade the clusters from the strong sun – and watered drop by drop. Yields are kept around 80 quintals per hectare. The grapes were picked by hand into 18-kilo crates at the end of February, at the very start of the southern-hemisphere harvest, to keep their freshness. The winemaking is built around the fruit: gentle pressing, a cool fermentation and bottling the following July.

Destemmed and pressed straight away in a pneumatic press; the free-run juice fermented for about three weeks at 16 °C with selected yeasts, then was bentonite-fined, filtered and bottled in July.

Servicio

Serve at 8–10 °C in a white-wine glass.

Ficha técnica

De la bodega Staphyle

A third-generation Mendoza family with old vines in Agrelo and the first vineyard in the mountains of Potrerillos.

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