Description
Real winemakers get their hands dirty. Hands black with wine. That’s what Manos Negras is all about. Rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty. That’s how we make these hand-crafted wines. Manos Negras focuses on latitude winemaking. Argentina and Chile’s winemaking regions stretch 1,500 miles north to south along the Andes. Each latitude possesses a unique terroir with singular combinations of soil and temperature which are ideally suited for different varietals. Manos Negras uses the unique skills of three immigrants to Argentina-New Zealand winemakers Duncan Killiner and Jason Mabbett, and American wine educator Jeff Mausbach- as well as the renown Argentine viticulturist Alejandro Sejanovich to craft wines based on exciting terroir-varietal combinations.
Casta de Salvajes Cronos Malbec 2012
lcbo Tasting Note
The 2012 Castas de Salvajes Cronos is Malbec, mostly from the Uco Valley from different locations. The full clusters fermented in egg-shaped concrete vats where the wine matured for a bit longer than one year. It is a fresh, juicy red, with aromas of red cherries and a spicy, Burgundian character akin to a Vosne Romanee. The palate is medium-bodied with great freshness and incipient complexity. A great elegant red that is well beyond the expression of the grape variety. Drink now-2019. Score – 93. (Luis Gutierrez, erobertparker.com, April 2014)
