A very special winemaker who debuted with "The Enemy"
Source: Damian Thursday, April 28, 2011
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Alejandro Vigil is an unconventional winemaker. Is at the forefront of the wine cellar and now ultra top solo releases. For there is no post that many may have in mind what happens behind closed doors in a warehouse the size of Catena Zapata, but Alejandro Vigil or @ Alemalbec
(as is his nickname on Twitter) is thus understood laburo well and carries the same passion to the vineyard and the bottle.
A tourist walks by and do not understand much of what explains Vigil. He is talking of "making ends wines, Argentine wines that pass the barrier of $ 50, quality of the vineyard, the group of people who works on the farm ... While this account, tweets, answers the phone and gives instructions to one of the operators. While think the presentation of a wine that is his and his partner Adrian Catena, in the hold Aleanna. "All the winemakers want their own wine 'and' but I waited, I took my time," he says in this informal chat, recording or scoring the sentences in order to retain flying nonstop.
of "the enemy", his firstborn, that is that is angry with anyone, malbec top that goes with dedication to a despicable character, but has to do with facing an internal enemy, the enemy within one, to go beyond. Or so is what I understood ...
Then we talked about the photo unorthodox to present the wine, which we see in this paper. He says he has to make another style of "vendetta" of the Italian Mafia, biting his finger. At this point no one will doubt that we are facing an unusual character in the world of reds.
That's Alejandro Vigil, although their scrolls show someone much more serious and focused, a model student, a high average university. He graduated as an agronomist at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, National University of Cuyo, where he completed a Masters in Enology and Irrigation and a Master Course in Microclimate Definition and incidence in wine. He began his career in the INTA and the Catena family there.
Well, all this to tell that Vigil is presenting its first solo wine, that is outside of what is the pyramid of Catena Zapata, where for years he took over the wine, this winery recognized throughout the world.
"the enemy" and got 90 points from the magazine "The Wine Advocate", which is already a very good start. It is a 93% Malbec, with a touch of petit verdot. Spends 12 months in oak and aromas that describe it are many, among which is dominated by spices, cherries and other red fruits mature. U.S. critic should take to from 2012 until 2020. Its price is around 180 pesos.
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