Some Ideas

ADDITIVES

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,...

ORANGE WINES = NOIR DE BLANC

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...

FORGOTEN “CRIOLLAS”

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...

EXOTIC VARIETALS

In the world, wine is made from some 4,000 different grape varieties, but 95% of the wine that people drink comes from those 15 varieties that we all know well. With the ever-present idea of expanding the narrow field of the wine world, I look for varietals that are...

WINE vs. MEGA MINING and FRACKING

In the Andes region, where I live, there is an ongoing fight over the use of water, which is a scarce common shared resource. The mining and oil companies that profit from the indiscriminate use of water want to settle in the region to take everything in exchange for...

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