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Las Perdices Mendoza Torrontes
Year
2010
2010
Varietal
Torrontés
Torrontés
Style
Juicy
Juicy
Origin
Argentina
Argentina
Pairing
Seafood
Seafood
$15.00 per bottle
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Origin
Mendoza is the largest winemaking area in Argentina,
accounting for 70 percent of its total wine production.
It’s also one of the driest places on earth. With peaks
23,000 feet high, the Andes capture precipitation
moving east from the Pacific, holding it in the form of
snow and ice. Their gradual melting transforms this high
desert into one of the world’s great wine regions. Half of
this wine comes from Salta to the north, which boasts
some of the highest-altitude vineyards in the world,
bringing the enormous diurnal shifts that help wine
grapes ripen while retaining great acidity. Pairings
Because of its beguiling, yet potent
floral character, Torrontes can be a challenging
match
for
food.
Being
a
lightbodied
white,
it
obviously
pairs
with
more
delicate
foods
like
fish
or
seafood.
But
tit
also
requires
flavors
that
can
stand
up
to
its
floral
notes.
Strongly
flavored
fruits
work
such
as
apples,
grapefruits,
peaches
and
pineapples
work
especially
well.
Consider
using
them
in
salads
with
a
lemon-based
vinaigrette
to
match
the
wine’s
acidity.
Likewise,
potent
herbs
like
cilantro,
sage
and
rosemary
have
the
high
tones
to
compete
with
Torrontes’s
surprising
assertiveness.Serve well chilled (45°F).
Winemaker
Juan Muñoz López left his home
of Andalucia, in southern Spain, in
1952 to bring his family to Mendoza,
Argentina, in search of new opportunities.
The wine industry
in Mendoza
was
just beginning to
find its way
and
was
familiar to
López, as Andalucia
has
a long tradition of winemaking.
The
name Las Perdices
means “the
partridges,”
after
the birds that were
seemingly
ubiquitous
on his land when
he
first obtained
it. Today,
the estate
is
managed
by López’s
sons. The Wine
Torrontes did not originate in Argentina,
but it has been there for centuries
and
has become known as the country’s
own
distinctive white
grape. A cross
between
Muscat and a grape called
Criolla
Chica, it produces a light white
wine
with fresh flavors
of melon and
fruit
with a highly distinctive, powerful
floral
overtone
that surely comes from
the
Muscat. The wine’s
body is delicate
yet
crisp, with brisk acidity and sharp
focus,
and it has an intense
enough flavor
to
work as an outstanding
aperitif. Recently Viewed :
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