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WINERY
The winery was built in the year 2002 on a family
farm in the heart of Vistalba (Luján de Cuyo). The architecture
style is "Criollo" or argentine native style. This blends
perfectly into the classic Mendoza terroir. Following the
heritage of his ancestors and the traditional winemaking that
the first italian and spanish inmigrants brought to Argentina,
this is where Carlos Pulenta developed his personal undertaking
of blending wines involving members of his family, advisors,
enologists, and a highly-esteemed group of people who knew his
land well.
Grapes are harvested manually and when off the vine their
temperature is reduced in a cooling tunnel. Stems and berries
are selected twice. These grapes, are gently placed in a
concrete fermentation tanks, where, after three to four days of
cold maceration, fermentation begins. The winery has been
designed in such a way that the whole winemaking process is
gravity induced without the use of pumps. The concrete
fermentation tanks where designed by Carlos Pulenta himself.
Inside the tank walls there are water pipes that can circulate
cold or hot water (radiant heat or cold concept). The
temperature of the water is computer-cotrolled. The main
adventages of this system are thermal inertia and micro
oxygenation. Two french wooden abrrels are used of the best
selected grapes destined to blend. Afeter being bottled, the
wines rest in an underground cellar which constitutes the heart
of the winery itself. Wines rest there in french oak casks in a
temperature controlled room with a temperature of 58ºf and 80%
relative humidity; ideal conditiones for wine.
Vistalba
Winery
Roque Saenz Peña 3531
Vistalba, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza
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