Melipal Winery

We visit the boutique Melipal winery with an all female team  and the special 100 year old Nazarene vineyard. Vines are 95 years old, 8% Malbec. Harvest will start tomorrow. Grapes are all hand sorted, even bottling and labeling is down by hand! Malolactic fermentation is done here too. For first class wines, they need grapes with more juice so plant care is paramount. 

  Here we try a Torontes - the liar grape - very dry and sources from Salta in the north. Then a 215 Malbec, a rainy year but good for fruity herbs flavors.  Malbec 2014 from Nazarene vineyard is deep red like blackcurrants and aged only in French oak.