A pioneering legacy
When Otto Peter Bemberg left Germany and made his option to Argentina in 1850, he didn’t simply carry the entrepreneurial nous that made him a profitable businessman. He additionally carried his love of wine which might be handed down by way of the generations.
Having been leaders of the Argentinian beer marketplace for the previous 150 years, in 2010 the Bembergs determined to reinvent themselves by way of viticulture with the acquisition of Grupo Peñaflor, the main exporter of Argentinian wines and proprietor of Trapiche amongst a number of different main estates.
Having turn into key gamers of the Argentinian wine scene, the Bembergs’s authentic ardour for wine grew additional they usually determined to discovered a brand new vineyard, particularly constructed upon the household’s values. Bemberg Property Wines was thus born: ‘Way more than a group of wines, the challenge is a method of honouring our lineage and constructing our family legacy.’
Finca El Tomillo, a novel winery
Situated in Gualtallary (Uco Valley), at an altitude of virtually 1200 metres, the Finca El Tomillo winery is the beating coronary heart of Bemberg Property Wines.
Studied to a stage of element by no means earlier than seen in Argentina, the winery has distinctive native flora, high-altitude mesoclimate and soil profile, which chief winemaker Daniel Pi and his staff interpret within the cellar to get the perfect out of every selection.
‘Respecting each variation within the terroir was the premise on which this winery, which has traits not discovered elsewhere in Argentina, was based. We tried totally different varieties with a purpose to unlock the perfect expression of every part, and ultimately chosen parcels that present the purity and identification we consider ought to symbolize Bemberg Property Wines,’ explains Daniel Pi.
The vineyard is run sustainably and outfitted with the most recent expertise designed to permit the micro-vinification of every particular person parcel. That is the one option to obtain the standard required of Bemberg Property Wines, as seen in Pionero, the vineyard’s flagship Bordeaux mix, which pays tribute to the visionary skills of Otto Peter Bemberg. It has been described by Daniel Pi as ‘the perfect wine I’ve ever made.’
La Linterna Microterroir, world class wines from Argentina
The identical effort and stage of element goes into the unique La Linterna Microterroir assortment, which incorporates restricted editions (between 3000 and 4000 bottles per label) of wines that embody the underlying mission of Bemberg Property Wines: to make the perfect wines in Argentina.
Made with native yeasts in concrete wine glass-shaped tanks – designed by the winemaker himself – La Linterna Microterroir wines are then precision-aged in barrels, foudres or casks relying on the impact Daniel Pi is trying to obtain for every parcel.
The painstaking craft that goes into each bottle has earned Bemberg Property Wines honours at main worldwide awards, together with the Decanter World Wine Awards 2022, the place they fetched two Platinum Medals for La Linterna Finca El Tomillo Parcela #1 Chardonnay 2017 and La Linterna Finca La Yesca Parcela #13 Malbec 2015 (each with a 97 factors rating), a Gold Medal for La Linterna Finca El Tomillo Parcela #1 Chardonnay 2018 (95pts) and 4 Silver Medals.
‘We’re making classical positive wines, not simply going together with the most recent tendencies,’ says Daniel Pi, summing up a philosophy that requires a particular appreciation of the soils, altitudes and micro climates of every particular person parcel.
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