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Mendoza - Casa Margot

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Bodega Margot is a family run winery located in Tupungato in the Luján de Cuyo area just outside Mendoza in Argentina. Our speciality is fine quality sparkling wine, made according to the traditional French and Italian champagne and charmat methods. We also produce a premium Malbec still wine called Maula and translated literally “The Cat’s Meow”.

Our plantation started in 2003 when 24 hectares were planted, and we have areas for further expansion. The vineyard is located at high altitude of 1.050 meters above sea level in the area of dense and best quality vineyards of Luján de Cuyo where the grapes are destined for the highest premium wines in the area. The soil is of rocky clay and the irrigation water comes directly from the ice melt off the nearby Andes mountains of Aconcagua, La Plata, El Tupungato. Our vineyards are protected by anti-hail nets and are planted with Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Malbec. We have sister properties where we grow our Chenin Blanc and Syrah at high altitude.

Our vineyards produce between 80.000 and 120.000 kilos of grapes per hectare with pruning taken into account and according to the variety of wines our enologist wishes to design. We also sell our grapes to other well-known wineries in the area for high quality wine production.

In 2007 we made 60.000 bottles of sparkling wine for our Blanc de Blancs and Blanc de Noirs Syrah. We also made 12.000 bottles of our fine Malbec varietal “Maula”. Ten percent of this juice is aged for 6 months in new French barrels, and the rest is macerated with new French oak stapes.

We currently export 20.000 bottles of this production and the other 2/3rd of the production is kept for resting in our cellars and developing to maturity.

Our enologist and winemaker is Ms. Romina Capirelli, a family member.

You will find products on the prestigious wine menus of the Mendoza Park Hyatt Hotel, Hotel Alvear , The Palacio Duhau and the Park Hyatt all in Buenos Aires. Our wines have also been selected in 2008 by the leading wine magazine Vinicius within the Top 10 producers of sparkling wines in Argentina.

We have recently inaugurated our state of the art boutique hotel Casa Margot, and we invite you to view this web site: Click here for Web Site

Extra Brut - Blanc de Noires

Grapes: Chardonnay (50%) and Syrah (50%)
Vineyards: Luján de Cuyo and Tupungato, Mendoza. Yearly controlled production of 100 quintales per hectare
Harvest: February by hand in 17 kilogrammes boxes.
Manufacturing: champenoise method, second fermentation in bottle, fifteen months sur lies.
First fermentation: 4 mounth seeded with typical yeast from Champagne, France, at low temperature to obtain delicate primary aromas.
Second fermentation: Bottled with a French selected yeast pied de cuve.

Extra Brut - Blanc de Blancs

Grapes: Chardonnay (80%) and Chenin (20%)
Vineyards: annual controlled production reaching 100 quintals per ha.
Harvest: February, by hand in 17 kg boxes
1st fermentation: seeding selected French yeast at low temperatures, in order to achieve delicate primary aromas
2nd fermentation: with a pied de cuvee from selected yeast coming from the Champagne region, resulting in a long and round wine in the mouth
Production: 50,000 bottles