Winery Michelini i MufattoBalsa de Piedra
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or mature and hard cheese.
The Balsa de Piedra of the Winery Michelini i Mufatto is in the top 50 of wines of Tupungato.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Balsa de Piedra of Winery Michelini i Mufatto in the region of Mendoza often reveals types of flavors of microbio, black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Balsa de Piedra
Pairings that work perfectly with Balsa de Piedra
Original food and wine pairings with Balsa de Piedra
The Balsa de Piedra of Winery Michelini i Mufatto matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef with onions chinese style, pasta with puttanesca sauce or pork in a salty-sweet way.
Discover the grape variety: Malbec
Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Balsa de Piedra from Winery Michelini i Mufatto are 0, 2019
Informations about the Winery Michelini i Mufatto
The Winery Michelini i Mufatto is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in the of Tupungato to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Tupungato
The wine region of Tupungato is located in the region of Uco Valley of Mendoza of Argentina. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Catena Zapata or the Domaine Rutini produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Tupungato are Malbec, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Tupungato often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, slate or ripe blackberries and sometimes also flavors of gooseberry, boysenberries or nutty.
The wine region of Mendoza
Mendoza is by far the largest wine region in Argentina. Located on a high-altitude plateau at the edge of the Andes Mountains, the province is responsible for roughly 70 percent of the country's annual wine production. The French Grape variety Malbec has its New World home in the vineyards of Mendoza, producing red wines of great concentration and intensity. The province Lies on the western edge of Argentina, across the Andes Mountains from Chile.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
