by Bodega Las Payas | Apr 8, 2022 | Ideas english
I usually design my own labels, but I know my limitations, so in 2007 I ask a professional to help me out with one design I was having trouble with. The result became what was maybe the first truly revolutionary wine label in Argentina. With a somehow Soviet look, it...
by Bodega Las Payas | Apr 7, 2022 | Ideas english
Within our idea of putting a piece of truth inside each bottle, the selected yeasts that come in a packet are out of the game. Such yeasts are one more element in the homogenization and standardization of wine. The grape itself already comes with a combo of...
by Bodega Las Payas | Apr 6, 2022 | Ideas english
In my attempt to minimize the content of sulfites in the wine, I ended up not using sulfites at all most of the times. I have been traveling this path since the 2013 harvest, learning to make wines without adding sulfites, especially during fermentation so that the...
by Bodega Las Payas | Apr 5, 2022 | Ideas english
Below is the list of products that are legal in the wine industry in Argentina but that we will never put in our wines: Acids: citric, malic, tannic, sorbic and its salts, erythorbic and its sodium salt, metatartaric, ascorbic, lactic. Neutral potassium tartrate,...
by Bodega Las Payas | Apr 4, 2022 | Ideas english
In some cases, with Pinot Noir grapes for example, Blanc de Noir wines are made, white wines made from red grapes. Here I go back to the ancient ways of making white wines by fermenting them as if they were red, that is, with their skins and seeds included. Since my...
by Bodega Las Payas | Apr 3, 2022 | Ideas english
I try to remedy the injustice that this group of grapes of supposedly low oenological value endures harvest after harvest that condemns them to the lowest form of Argentine table wine: the “Tetra” (short for Tetra pack). And I stick my neck out for them by fermenting...
