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Teho La Consulta Semillon 2020
Impressive old vine semillon. Fruity greengage aromas and a concentrated palate derived from 60 year old vines. Fresh and bright palate from cool vineyard at 1,100 metres in La Consulta. Aged 10 months in used French 500-litre oak barrels. Some lees stirring is practised to increase palate weight and produce a richer texture.
Price:
£28.00
Bottle
Price:
£168.00
Case of 6
In Stock
Code: AR4971
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 2 - Dry
- Semillon
- 75cl
- Now to 2029
- 13% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Cork, diam
55malbec
55malbec is a company founded by Alejandro Sejanovich and Jeff Mausbach in about 2009. Both had worked together at Catena, Alejandro in viticulture and winemaking, and Jeff in marketing. They make small quantities of two wines called Teho and Zaha, aiming to express the unique terroirs of their estate vineyards. Based on co-fermentation – making blends by mixing different varieties together during fermentation – the wines reflect subtle nuances and complexities of each vineyard. Co-fermentation helps bind tannin and colouring matter together by polymerisation. Short tannin-colour chains are rougher and spikier, longer ones are more gentle and velvety. Malbec has a lot of colour but not much tannin, so fermenting with say cabernet which has a lot of tannin, can help bind more of malbec's colour than if fermented separately. The binding also happens when blended post fermentation but is less effective.
Their Tomal and Toko vineyards are in the southern part of the Uco Valley in La Consulta, and its sub region Paraje Altamira. This is a very cool area being closer to the mountains and further south than vineyards closer to Mendoza. Some of the most aromatic and finest textured wines are coming from this area.
The name 55malbec derives from a 4ha vineyard they bought in about 2009, now named Tomal. When purchased they thought it was planted in 1955. They have since discovered one half was, but the other was planted in 1940. It is situated in the cool La Consulta region at 900m, a ...