Vastago de Gea - Malbec ROSE

Agrelo, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza

Tasting notes

Bright pink, ranging by vintage from a pale shade to a deeper garnet-pink. The nose shows strawberry, raspberry and cherry alongside floral notes of white flowers and wild rose. Soft on the palate, with lively, refreshing acidity and a lingering finish.

Pairs with

• Grilled prawns or fish from the parrilla
• Beef carpaccio
• Seafood and fresh starters
• Pasta with béchamel sauce
• Light fruit desserts

Where it comes from

Staphyle farms in Agrelo, part of Luján de Cuyo just south of the city of Mendoza and one of the province's traditional wine districts. This is foothill country below the Andes, where vineyards cannot do without irrigation – here it is drip-fed. Malbec originally comes from south-west France, but in Mendoza it found conditions that suited it so well it became Argentina's signature grape. Rosé shows its lighter side. For this wine from the Vástago de Gea line, fruit from 25-year-old, vertically trained vines stays on its skins for only 18 hours at a very low temperature – enough for colour and red-fruit aromas without the tannin of a red. The result is a rosé built on freshness rather than weight.

Harvested into 18 kg crates and sorted before destemming, 18 hours of skin contact at 5 °C, then the separated juice fermented at 16 °C with selected yeasts.

Serving

Serve well chilled at 6–8 °C.

Technical sheet

From the winery Staphyle

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

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