2025 El Montañista Corte de Blancas, Calingasta Valley, Argentina Aurore Casanova in 2020 the wine spent

in 2020 the wine spent about fifty-five days on skins

only indigenous yeasts are used during fermentation and no temperature controls are utilized

Soil Type Grey slate subsoil covered with a layer of porphyry

From four parcels planted in 2000

2025 El Montañista Corte de Blancas, Calingasta Valley, Argentina Aurore Casanova in 2020 the wine spentTorrents Sanjuanino and Torronts Mendocino (with small amounts of Malvasia and Maticha) from the 80 year old Paraje Hilario vineyard, planted on quartz rich colluvial rocks at 1500m in the foothills of the Andes mountains. The grapes were hand harvested, destemmed, and macerated on their skins for the duration of alcoholic fermentation in concrete. This wine was never pressed: just the free run juice was rested in concrete for 7 months before