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SOUtH AMERICAOLD FAVOURITES AND EXCITING NEW DISCOVERIES

T H E B E S T O F C H I L E ,ARGENTINA & URUGUAY

South America continues to reinvent itself, discovering new valleys, making new wines and producing old favourites differently and better than before.

This offer features many favourites that members enjoy so much as well as a number of new finds that are well worth trying. Among new highlights this year is our first sparkling wine from Chile, a fiano from a 1,200m-high vineyard in La Rioja, Argentina, and a new viognier from Limarí.

We also feature a red and rosado cinsault from 50-year-old unirrigated bush vines from the southern Itata Valley. We have earlier-picked wines matured in foudres to increase freshness, reduce alcohol and banish oakiness. We have more malbecs from the very cool Altamira district of Mendoza. From Uruguay, we have selected a lovely fresh tannat from Pisano and have made another bottling with Familia Deicas of their Garzón tannat.

There is much to discover and enjoy! If the choice is too wide, our six mixed cases provide excellent snapshots with savings to encourage exploration.

Toby Morrhall Society Buyer

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In 2013 The Society’s Chilean range was once again voted the country’s best by the IWC (International Wine Challenge), for the seventh time in the last eight years.

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Wines up to £8.50Reds Page 3Whites Page 4 Wines from £8.50Chile Page 5 – Page 7Argentina Page 8 – Page 9Uruguay Page 9 Mixed Cases Pages 3, 4 and back cover

Lascar Carmenère 2013 Ripe, soft and velvety carmenère, well priced for the quality. 13.5%ref AM-CE7671 £5.50 bottle £66 dozen

Lascar Merlot 2012Round, rich satisfying merlot. 13.5% The 2013 follows. ref AM-CE7071 £5.50 bottle £66 dozen

Lascar Cabernet Sauvignon 2012Attractive Chilean cabernet sauvignon which is fuller than the merlot above without being heavy.13.5%ref AM-CE7081 £5.50 bottle £66 dozen

Silbador Merlot 2012Pretty, silky-textured merlot made by Emiliana from their own organic vineyards. 13.5%ref AM-CE7111 £6.50 bottle £78 dozen

The Society’s Chilean Rapel Merlot100% matured in barriques for about eight months, this is a high-class merlot with an opulent, velvety texture. 14% ref AM-CE1511 £6.75 bottle £81 dozen

The Society’s Chilean Maipo Cabernet SauvignonA fine nose of blackcurrants and cedar is followed by a fresh, well-structured palate. Impressive quality for the price. 14.5%ref AM-CE2601 £6.75 bottle £81 dozen

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I am extremely excited by this selection of wines from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. The quality and variety we are able to offer in this price range has never been better. First of all, our six Society wines (also available in a mixed case) come from the best suppliers and regions and offer the finest quality and value for money in our range.

From Chile, we offer soft and plummy merlots and carmenères, cedary cabernets and cherry-scented pinot noirs. From

Argentina, the soft and mature Weinert Carrascal 2008 has been featuring in a number of journalists’ under-£10 favourites, and from Uruguay we have two contrasting wines – the sweet and succulent marselan, a grenache-cabernet sauvignon cross, and we have been back to Pisano and selected a beautifully balanced tannat which is bright and fresh.

The white wine selection shows a wider range of varieties available at this price than before. We have three aromatic varieties,

peachy viognier, spicy gewürztraminer and grapy torrontés. We have two intense Chilean sauvignon blancs from the lovely 2013 vintage and a number of chardonnays ranging from the fruitier end of the spectrum, Doña Paulina and the melony Silbador, to the The Society’s taut and mineral selection from the Limarí Valley. We also have a fine-flavoured fiano from a 1,200m-high vineyard in Argentina.

The Society’s Argentine MalbecSoft and gentle malbec with a hint of oak. This high-quality wine is made for us by Susana Balbo, one of Argentina’s greatest winemakers. 14% ref AM-AR1301 £6.95 bottle £83 dozen

Miguel Torres Santa Digna Curicó Merlot, 2011 From the 15-year-old El Aromo vineyard in Curicó, this is lovely plummy chilean merlot, yet lively and fresh too. 80% aged in barrel for six months. 14%ref AM-CE6911 £7.50 bottle £90 dozen The Society’s Chilean Leyda Pinot NoirMade for us by Viña Leyda from cool-climate Leyda fruit. Bright, black-cherry-scented pinot with a fine, silky palate from part ageing in barrels for eight months. 14.5%ref AM-CE4081 £7.50 bottle £90 dozen

Weinert Carrascal 2008 Like a baby Cavas (Weinert’s top wine), this delicious Argentine red is made from a blend of 40% malbec, 35% cabernet sauvignon and 25% merlot aged two years in foudres and six months in vats before bottling. Rich, velvety texture with mature flavours of cedar and leather. 14% ref AM-AR2841 £7.95 bottle £95 dozen NEW Pisano Progreso Tannat 2013 Deep, inky colour, ripe blackberry-fruit aromas followed by the fine and persistent palate; it all adds up to a wonderfully characterful wine from Uruguay. Ideal with a shoulder of lamb or a peppered steak. 13.5%ref AM-UR351 £7.95 bottle £95 dozen

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Atlántico Sur Garzón Vineyard Marselan Maldonado 2013Marselan is a Uruguayan cabernet sauvignon-grenache cross. Its lovely sweet, ripe, peppery grenache-like fruit is underpinned by a cool southern Atlantic freshness. 12.5%ref AM-UR311 £8.50 bottle £102 dozen

A 12-bottle case containing two bottles of each of the following:

RedThe Society’s Chilean Leyda Pinot Noir

The Society’s Chilean Rapel Merlot

The Society’s Chilean Maipo Cabernet Sauvignon

The Society’s Argentine Malbec

WhiteThe Society’s Chilean Leyda Sauvignon Blanc

The Society’s Chilean Limarí Chardonnay

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Doña Paulina Valle Central Chardonnay 2012No-nonsense, straightforward Chilean chardonnay. Ripe yet balanced with an appealing freshness. No oak. 13% The 2013 follows. ref AM-CE6661 £5.50 bottle £66 dozen

Silbador Casablanca Chardonnay 2013Attractive melony chardonnay from an organic vineyard in Casablanca. 13.5%ref AM-CE7261 £6.50 bottle £78 dozen

Silbador Rapel Gewürztraminer 2013Spicy, lychee-scented gewürztraminer. Medium-bodied with appealing freshness. 14%ref AM-CE7651 £6.50 bottle £78 dozen

The Society’s Chilean Limarí ChardonnayCrisp and vibrant Limarí Valley chardonnay with about 10% barrel-fermented wine to contribute a little roundness without masking the bright citrus fruit. 13.5%ref AM-CE5151 £6.75 bottle £81 dozen

The Society’s Chilean Leyda Sauvignon BlancThis excellent sauvignon blanc has mouthwatering aromas of gooseberry and elderflower together with a vivid and refreshing palate. 12.5%ref AM-CE3291 £6.75 bottle £81 dozen

NEW Tabalí Limarí Viognier 2013Bright fresh unoaked viognier. Light apricot fruit and fresh lemony palate. 13.5%ref AM-CE7621 £7.50 bottle £90 dozen

Faldeos Nevados Torrontés 2013Peach and grape-scented torrontés, Argentina’s original white grape, with a streak of lemony freshness. 50% comes from Cafayate vineyards and 50% from Altamira. 14% ref AM-AR2931 £7.50 bottle £90 dozen

Corte Ignacio Casablanca Sauvignon Blanc 2013From south-west Casablanca, one of the coolest parts of the valley, this is fresh, blackcurrant leaf-scented sauvignon blanc of high quality offered at a very good price.13%ref CE7321 £7.50 Bottle £90 dozen

NEW Faldeos Nevados Fiano 2012From the 1,200m-high Famatina Valley in La Rioja comes this fresh, tense and mineral wine with excellent length of flavour. The fiano grape is perhaps best known in Campania, Italy, but also flourishes in the altitude of Argentina. 12% ref AM-AR2961 £7.75 bottle £93 dozen

Corte Ignacio Rapel Coastal Litueche Chardonnay 2013Lovely fresh, melony chardonnay from Concha’s new vineyard on the Rapel Coast. 13.5%.ref AM-CE7301 £7.95 bottle £95 dozen

WHITES BELOW £8 ROSÉ BELOW £8 NEW Faldeos Nevados Malbec Mendoza Rosado 2013 Ripe and fresh-tasting Argentine rosé made from malbec. 13.5% ref AM-AR2941 £7.95 bottle £95 dozen

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Vina Litoral Leyda Sauvignon Blanc 2013

The Society’s Chilean Limarí Chardonnay

Silbador Rapel Gewürztraminer 2013

Tabali Limarí Viognier 2013

Faldeos Nevados Fiano 2012

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THE CREAM OF SOUTH AMERICAN WINEMAKING

Winemaking never stands still in South America and growers continue to discover new valleys and make new exciting wines and each year I come back buoyed with enthusiasm for the remarkable speed at which this is still happening. Here I have picked some of the producers who are at the forefront of South America’s continued reinvention. These wines are made from lower-yielding vineyards in regions where the matching of variety to climate, and increasingly soil, offers distinctive character and outstanding quality.

De Martino, for instance, have made a lovely red and rosado from old bush vines of cinsault in the green, forested Itata Valley. The cool climates of Limarí and Leyda continue to thrive and we are buying more wines from Tabalí and Ventolera, including a new viognier and a new pinot noir rosado.

Koyle have been planting steep hillside vineyards to 10,000 vines per hectare (ha)

– unthinkable in Chile 25 years ago. This should produce marvellous wines. They have also been making some very fine and mineral wines near the coast where the cooler climate suits pinot noir and sauvignon blanc.

This year we have bought our first sparkling wine from Chile: Subercaseaux from Concha y Toro is the best we have tasted.

We have an excellent range of producers in Argentina covering a wide variety of styles from the old-fashioned Weinert to the classic Mendel style; Mausbach and Sejanovich are making lovely violet-scented malbec from the coolest area in Mendoza, Altamira, using classic techniques such as co-fermentation.

We have made another fine bottling of tannat from the Garzón vineyard to the east of Uruguay. High vigour due to the 1,100mm rainfall can be a problem in Uruguay but Garzón’s well-drained granite soils and cool temperatures offer great finesse.

DE MARtINO: Itata Valley and Foudres

De Martino are innovators, always exploring new valleys and new winemaking techniques. This year I travelled 400km south of Santiago with them to see the unusual vineyards of the Itata Valley. It’s a lovely region of undulating countryside and it’s green, unusual in most of Chile’s winemaking regions, due to the rainfall and the copious plantings of pine trees. Plentiful rainfall of 1,100mm means the vineyards do not need supplementary irrigation. The cinsault vineyards were planted in the 1950s and 1960s and are trained as bush vines and planted to a density of about 4,425 vines/ha. De Martino have made a lovely rosado and a red wine from cinsault which are well worth trying.

De Martino dislike the overt aromas of new oak and so have also been pioneering the use of 2,500-litre foudres. This size does not contribute any oak flavour but allows oxygen in to develop the flavours and soften the tannins in the reds. We have bought the first two wines, the carmenère and chardonnay, to have been matured in these foudres. We like their understated character, their freshness and that they are designed to partner food.

RED NEW De Martino Gallardia del Itata Cinsault 2013Lovely ripe, peppery cinsault with sweet fruit and soft tannins. Enjoy in its exuberant youth and serve cool. 13.5% ref AM-CE7371 £8.95 bottle £107 dozen

De Martino Alto de Piedras Isla del Maipo Carmenère 2011Harvested earlier at 13% and then matured in foudres, this is one of the first ‘new-generation’ wines from De Martino which are fresher, finer, less oaky and better with food than early ‘fruit bomb’ styles. Now to 2022. 13% ref AM-CE7381 £17 bottle £204 dozen

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NEW De Martino Quebrada Seca Limarí Chardonnay 2011High-quality chardonnay fermented in barrels then matured in foudres to preserve its minerality. 13.5% ref AM-CE7361 £14.50 bottle £174 dozen ROSÉ

NEW De Martino Gallardia del Itata Cinsault Rosado 2013Pale pink, light, refreshing and fruity rosado from the cool Itata valley. 13.5%ref AM-CE7511 £8.95 bottle £107 dozen

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De Martino Page 5Concha y Toro Page 6Ventolera Page 6Tabali Page 6Koyle Page 7Primus Page 7Cono Sur Page 7 ArgentinA

Weinert Page 8Mendel Page 8Sejanovich & Mausbach Page 9Susana Balbo Page 9

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Famila Deicas Page 9

Sebastian De Martino

tABALI: Limarí ValleyWe are buying more and more wines from this impressive outfit in the Limarí valley. Its combination of different climates and soils allows a wide variety of superb wines to be made here from crisp sauvignon blancs to luscious dessert wines. The Talinay wines from very cool limestone vineyards are intense, pure, subtle and mineral rather than fruity in character and show how refined Chilean wines can be.

RED Tabalí Reserva Especial Limarí Syrah 2010Really impressive tar-and-violet-scented syrah with a succulent palate. 14% The 2011 follows. ref AM-CE6861 £9.75 bottle £117 dozen

NEW Talinay Limestone Coast Limarí Pinot Noir 2011Understated, mineral pinot from a very cold limestone vineyard close to the sea. Great finesse and purity. Now to 2016. 14.5%ref AM-CE7631 £13.50 bottle £162 dozen

WHITE NEW Tabalí Reserva Especial Limarí Sauvignon Blanc 2013 2013 is a lovely cool vintage. Brisk, taut, almost saline sauvignon blanc in a most mineral style. Made from the Caliza vineyard, one of the coolest in Chile. Clean as a whistle. Ideal with seafood. 13.5%ref AM-CE7611 £8.50 bottle £102 dozen

Talinay Limestone Coast Vineyard Limarí Chardonnay 2012A remarkable combination of a deep limestone and clay soil and a very cool situation produce a tense, mineral chardonnay of great purity and precision. This mineral style is rarely ever found in the new world. 13.5%ref AM-CE7251 £11.95 bottle £143 dozen

Half bottle of Tabalí Late-Harvest Limarí Pink Muscat 2011 Lovely grapy dessert wine made from pink muscat grapes with some botrytis. Ideal with a ripe melon. 12.5% ref AM-CE7242 £4.95 half bottle

I am excited by the new generation of sparkling wines now being made in Chile. We will list more later in the year. Cool, limestone-rich vineyards in Limarí produce ideal low-alcohol, mineral base wines for sparkling wines. Subercaseaux, made by Marcelo Papa of Concha y Toro with a consultant from Champagne, is the best we have tasted.

NEW Subercaseaux Extra Brut Metodo Tradicional Limarí 2010Impressive, refined, dry, bottle-fermented sparkling wine made by Concha y Toro from 90% pinot noir and 10% chardonnay from the cool Limarí Valley. 12.5% ref AM-SG1711 £17 bottle £204 dozen

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VENtOLERA: Leyda ValleyVentolera have some of the best vineyards in the cool Leyda Valley with more limestone and more stoney soil than most. The new team combines owner Vicente Izquierdo with partner and gifted winemaker Stefano Gandolini. Pinot noir and sauvignon blanc are especially successful. RED

NEW Viña Litoral Leyda Pinot Noir 2012Pinot has found a happy home in the Leyda vineyards cooled by the proximity of the Pacific. Pretty black-cherry pinot. Succulent yet fresh. Now to 2017. 13.5% ref AM-CE7441 £10.95 bottle £131 dozen

Ventolera Leyda Pinot Noir 2012Lovely black-fruit aromas of cherries and plums, supported by ripe tannins embedded in the silky texture. 70% aged in wood for six months. 14% ref AM-CE7561 £13.95 bottle £167 dozen

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NEW Viña Litoral Leyda Sauvignon Blanc 2013 Lovely nettle-leaf-scented sauvignon blanc. Made by gifted new winemaker Stefano Gandolini at Ventolera, who have some of the best vineyards in Leyda. 13.5%ref AM-CE7421 £8.95 bottle £107 dozen

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NEW Viña Litoral Leyda Pinot Noir Rosado 2013Pretty pale-pink rosado with aromas of strawberries and red cherries. 13.5%ref AM-CE7431 £8.95 bottle £107 dozen


CONO SUR: Superb cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir Few companies in the world excel at cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir for it takes a different mind-set to make both well. However, Adolfo Hurtado is a talented winemaker who is able to produce superb examples of both types. The Ocio 2011 is the best-ever vintage by quite a long way and Ocio is the best pinot in Chile, so this is a strong recommendation. Their 20 Barrels cabernet is from the great Puente Alto vineyard, where Almaviva, Chadwick and Don Melchor is situated. It is a tertiary terrace of the Maipo River with rounded stones and gravel, ideal soil for cabernet.

NEW Cono Sur 20 Barrels Puente Alto Maipo Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 From the superb Puente Alto vineyard this is a top cedary cabernet sauvignon aged a year or so in barrels. 2010 is a high-quality cool year. Now to 2022.14%ref AM-CE7521 £14.95 bottle £179 dozen

Ocio Pinot Noir 20112011 is the best-ever vintage of Ocio, Chile’s greatest pinot noir. It was a cool year, allowing fruit to ripen fully yet with finer aromas and a fresher palate. Now to 2020. 14.5% ref AM-CE7581 £31 bottle £372 dozen

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KOYLE: Coast and AndesCristóbal Undurraga is a very impressive viticulturist and winemaker who, with help from brothers Max (finance) and Alfonso (sales), is making superb wines with great character and personality. Unlike most owners, who tend to live in the capital city Santiago, Cristobal lives in a house in the vineyards with his family and loves the rural life.

Koyle is his new venture, having sold the business which carries his name, and they have planted impressive vineyards, unthinkable 20 years ago, in Alto Colchagua at 450 metres altitude near the Andes, including a steep hill with individually staked syrah vines at the high density of 10,000 vines/ha. They have also planted mourvèdre, tempranillo, cabernet sauvignon, merlot and others, which they are tending biodynamically. At a cooler site near the coast at Paredones they are making elegant, understated pinot noir and sauvignon blanc of great refinement.

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Koyle Reserva Carmenère 2011This intense and spicy carmenère is one of the most interesting and distinctive examples we have tasted. Grown in a coolish area for this variety, it shows hints of black pepper and cloves, with full yet fresh palate. 14% The 2012 follows. ref AM-CE7041 £8.50 bottle £102 dozen NEW Koyle Costa Rapel Coastal Pinot Noir 2012Restrained, fine-flavoured pinot with less overt fruit and more freshness and grip than is usual in Chile. From Paredones, just 9km from the Pacific, with granite and quartz soils. Now to 2016. 14%ref AM-CE7481 £11.50 bottle £138 dozen

Koyle El Peuco Alto Colchagua Tempranillo-Mourvèdre 2011A fine, smoky tempranillo with about 14% mourvèdre to add depth and grip, aged in barrel for over a year. Exclusive to The Wine Society. Now to 2018. 14%ref AM-CE7151 £11.50 bottle £138 dozen

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NEW Koyle Costa Rapel Coastal Sauvignon Blanc 2012Tight, mineral sauvignon blanc that needed time in bottle to blossom but now is on top form. More mineral and less fruity than most Chilean sauvignon blanc. From a vineyard near Paredones, just 9km from the Pacific, with granite and quartz soils. Made from three parcels with differing aspects. 12.5% ref AM-CE7491 £10.50 bottle £126 dozen

VERAMONtE: PrimusPrimus is a new find. It is made by Veramonte from top-quality grapes sourced from some of the best vineyards in the Alto Maipo. It is a prime example of Chile’s strong suit – value-for-money cabernet sauvignon.

NEW Primus Maipo Cabernet Sauvignon 2011Fine, cedary cabernet aged a year in barrels. Lovely example of Maipo cabernet sauvignon. 14.5% ref AM-CE7531 £9.95 bottle £119 dozen

Koyle’s new vneyards planted on slopes, unthinkable 20 years ago before flood irrigation.

Adolfo Hurtado

WEINERt: Old-fashioned ArgentinaIn a style akin to Lebanon’s Chateau Musar or traditional Rioja, Weinert make wines with lovely tertiary aromas of tobacco, leather and cedar. They keep their wines in large old foudres for two to four years in a deep, cold, granite cellar and bottle them when the tannins have softened to a silky sweetness. The excellent-value Weinert Carrascal 2008 is available on page 3.

Weinert Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 Generous old-fashioned cabernet now round and mellow, with notes of leather and tobacco, after ageing in large old wooden casks for three years. Now to 2016. 14.5% Available from mid February ref AM-AR2561 £10.50 bottle £126 dozen

Weinert Cavas de Weinert 2004Of all Bernardo Weinert’s stable of Argentine wines, Cavas is the one which we regularly consider the most interesting. Lovely traditional style, aged in large oak vats for three to four years until soft and mellow. Cavas is made from 40% malbec, 40% cabernet sauvignon and 20% merlot. Now to 2015. 14.5% ref AM-AR2571 £12.95 bottle £155 dozen

MENDEL: Classic Wines from Argentina Mendel have lots of old vineyards of over 70 years of age, many interplanted with olive trees in the traditional style, and age their red wines in 225-litre barriques of French oak for 12–15 months. Roberto de la Mota is one of the most able and experienced winemakers in South America and ensures that the grapes are picked ripe but not too ripe. Their wines have a hint of European restraint without excessive new-world fruitiness and are designed to be enjoyed with food. Indeed, their red wines are best decanted half an hour or so before serving. For the red wines we are offering 2008, 2010 and 2011 as they were all lovely cool years of high quality.

RED Mendel Malbec 2011 Made from a vineyard planted in 1928 in the Mayor Drummond area of Mendoza, near Lunlunta. 2011 was a fine and cool year giving an intense floral, scented nose and a medium-bodied, refreshing palate of considerable elegance. Decant half an hour before serving. Now to 2018. 14% ref AM-AR3001 £12.95 bottle £155 dozen

NEW Mendel Cabernet Sauvignon 2010Fine and cedary cabernet from a 15-year-old vineyard at Perdriel at about 1,000m altitude. Now to 2018. 14.5%ref AM-AR2771 £12.95 bottle £155 dozen

Mendel Unus 2010 Made from 70% malbec from a vineyard planted in 1928 in Perdriel, with 30% cabernet sauvignon from a 15-year-old vineyard, aged for about 15 months in barriques. Intense perfume and fine silky palate. Decant 30 minutes before serving. Now to 2026. 14.5%ref AM-AR2831 £20 bottle £240 dozen

Mendel Finca Remota 2008 From a 70-year-old malbec vineyard in Altamira, where light silty soils and a cool climate combine to produce a very aromatic, violet-toned malbec of great finesse. Made in very limited quantities. Now to 2024. 14.5%ref AM-AR2631 £42 bottle £504 dozen

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Mendel Mendoza Semillon 2012.This is a superb example of old-vine semillon, with typical greengage aromas and rich texture. Now to 2017. 13% The 2013 follows. ref AM-AR2761 £10.50 bottle £126 dozen

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Roberto de la Mota Old malbec vines at Mendel

SEJANOVICH & MAUSBACH: Co-Fermentation and BlendingZaha and its bigger brother, Teho, come from the Altamira region of Mendoza. Its vines are planted at 950–1,000m in the coolest, southernmost part of the region, on sandy and silty soils with some limestone resulting in elegant fine-textured wines. Ex-Catena winemaker Alejandro Sejanovich is keen on partial co-fermenation (fermenting different varieties together in the same vat). The colouring matter of malbec binds together with the tannins of petit verdot and cabernet franc producing a richer-tasting and more-structured wine with smoother tannins than if fermented separately. Petit verdot contributes structure and cabernet franc a cedary top note to malbec’s voluptuous fruit and violet scent.

Zaha Malbec 2011This is an intensely aromatic malbec with floral and blackberry notes. The soils in Altamira, predominantly sandy and silty with some limestone, give an exquisite, fine-grained silky texture, especially after a year in barrel. Now to 2021. 14% ref AM-AR2891 £22 bottle £264 dozen

Teho Malbec 2010Dense, powerful yet silky textured wine made from four different lots from three different types of soil (sand, silt and rock). The malbec is principally from a vineyard planted in 1955. There is also 6% petit verdot and 4% cabernet franc co-fermented with the malbec. Now to 2028. 14% ref AM-AR2751 £39 bottle £468 dozen

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FAMILIA DEICAS Fernando Deicas owns Juanicó, Uruguay’s biggest wine company, and reserves his best wines for sale under the Familia Deicas labels. We are grateful to have worked with Fernando, and his winemaker son Santiago, to select and bottle exclusively for us a wonderful wine from the Garzón vineyard in eastern Uruguay. This cool vineyard with well-drained decomposed granite is producing some of the country’s most exciting tannat. Gran Bodegón is a superb blend of varieties showing how fine Uruguay’s top wines can be.

NEW Atlantico Sur Garzón Vineyard Selección Especial Maldonado Tannat 2011Floral, blackberry-fruit tannat from a new, very cool area in the east of Uruguay producing refined wines. Intense and fine flavoured. The tannins are sweet and silky. 13% ref AM-UR321 £12.50 bottle £150 dozen

NEW Gran Bodegón 2010Fine, elegant wine with Bordeaux-like balance. It was made from 42% tannat, 33% merlot, 9% cabernet sauvignon, 9% cabernet franc, 5% petit verdot and 2% marselan. It was aged in perfect conditions for 27 months in barriques in a beautiful vaulted cellar built in 1830 by Don Francisco Juanicó. Now to 2022. 13.5% ref AM-UR331 £22 bottle £264 dozen

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SUSANA BALBOOne of the great figures of the Argentine wine scene, Susana Balbo is supremely gifted and able. After many years working for others, including Torino in Salta and Martins and Catena in Mendoza, and then working in rented wineries, building her own Dominio del Plata winery is the realisation of her dream home, although it has already been extended a number of times, such has been her success. We are delighted she makes The Society’s Argentine malbec for us. Her Signature Malbec is a beautifully soft, opulent wine. Her Brioso is a refined cabernet-based blend, with exquisite cedary bouquet, while Expresivo is a wonderful wine with an explosive fruity flavour.

Susana Balbo Signature Malbec Mendoza 2011This superb wine is a complex-tasting blend of 90% malbec with 10% cabernet sauvignon from an excellent-quality, cool harvest. It has a beautiful floral nose and a caressing velvety palate, so smooth and round. Aged 13 months in 80% new French barrels and 20% second use. Now to 2020. 14.5% ref AM-AR2851 £12.95 bottle £155 dozen

Susana Balbo Brioso 2007This wonderful cabernet sauvignon-based blend from Mendoza has a fine cedary nose and palate combining concentration with great length of flavour. An impressive blend of 60% cabernet sauvignon, 15% malbec, 10% merlot, 10% cabernet franc and 5% petit verdot aged in new French oak for 14 months. Now to 2020. 14.5%. The 2009 follows.ref AM-AR2741 £19.50 bottle £234 dozen

NEW Ben Marco Expresivo Mendoza 2011Aptly named oak-aged blend of 50% malbec, 20% cabernet sauvignon, 10% syrah, 10% tannat, 5% bonarda and 5% petit verdot aged in barrel for a year or so. Fires the taste buds with its myriad flavours and opulent texture. Now to 2019. 14.5%ref AM-AR2971 £20 bottle £240 dozen

This is the nest of the hornero or oven bird on a vineyard post. Uruguay means river of painted birds in the native language!Susana Balbo

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The Society’s Chilean Leyda Pinot Noir

Tabalí Reserva Especial Limarí Syrah 2010/2011

Koyle Reserva Carmenère 2011/2012

De Martino Gallardia del Itata Cinsault 2013

Primus Maipo Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

Atlántico Sur Garzón Vineyard Marselan Maldonado 2013

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The Society’s Chilean Pinot Noir

Miguel Torres Santa Digna Curicó Merlot 2011

Lascar Carmenère 2013

Lascar Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

Weinert Carrascal 2008

Atlántico Sur Garzón Vineyard Marselan Maldonado 2013

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A six-bottle case containing one bottle of each of the following:

Mendel Malbec 2011

Mendel Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

Susana Balbo Signature Malbec Mendoza 2011

Susana Balbo Brioso 2007/2009

Weinert Cavas de Weinert 2004

Zaha Malbec, 2011

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A six-bottle case containing two bottles of each of the following:

Susana Balbo Brioso 2007/2009

Mendel Unus 2010

Cono Sur 20 Barrels Puente Alto Maipo Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

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SOUtH AMERICAN REDS VARIEtY CASE

EXPLORE SOUtH AMERICAN REDS

tHE BESt OF ARGENtINA

FINE, RICH SOUtH AMERICAN REDS

mixed cases FRee UK deLiVeRY

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- bone dry to intensely sweet screwcap synthetic closure new vintage



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