2019 | Domaine Bousquet | Virgen Natural Malbec

Description

Red Wine: 2019 | Domaine Bousquet | Virgen Natural Malbec

Deep-intensity purple in color, this wine has a medium-intensity nose of black plum, raspberry puree, red currant, red cherry, crushed-dried violet blossom and bread dough.

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Producer: Domaine Bousquet

Vintage: 2019

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.4%

Varietal: Malbec

Country/Region: Argentina, Tupungato

Deep-intensity purple in color, this wine has a medium-intensity nose of black plum, raspberry puree, red currant, red cherry, crushed-dried violet blossom and bread dough. On the palate the dry, medium-bodied malbec has medium-intensity flavors suggested on the nose supported by medium acidity and ripe, medium tannin ultimately completing with a medium finish.

Producer Information

A 1990 vacation in Argentina was all it took. For third-generation winemaker Jean Bousquet, it was love at first sight. The object of the Frenchman’s desire: the Gualtallary Valley, a scenic, remote, arid terrain high in the Tupungato district of the Uco Valley in Argentina’s Mendoza region, close to the border with Chile. Here, where the condors fly and not a vine in sight, Bousquet discovered his dream terroir, an ideal location in which to nurture organically-grown wines. With altitudes ranging up to 5,249 feet, Gualtallary occupies the highest extremes of Mendoza’s viticultural limits. Fast-forward to the present and wine cognoscenti recognize it as the source of some of Mendoza’s finest wines. Back then, it was virgin territory: tracts of semi-desert, nothing planted, no water above ground, no electricity and a single dirt track by way of access. Locals dismissed the area as too cold for growing grapes. Bousquet, on the other hand, reckoned he’d found the perfect blend between his French homeland and the New World (sunny, with high natural acidity and a potential for relatively fruit-forward wines). Bousquet’s daughter, economist Anne Bousquet, and her husband Labid Al Ameri, a successful trader with Fidelity in Boston, found themselves increasingly drawn to the cause, including the opportunity it offered to put their shared philosophy on sustainability into effect. After a 2002 trip to Argentina, the couple began to invest in Domaine Bousquet. In 2005, Al Ameri joined his father-in-law full time, helping with the construction of the winery. Anne continued her work as an economist, before joining the company in 2008. In 2009, the couple moved to Tupungato full-time, assuming full ownership of Domaine Bousquet in 2011. Nowadays, Domaine Bousquet produces 4 million liters a year and export 95% of its volume to more than 50 countries. With our own import companies in the USA, Europe, and Brazil, Domaine Bousquet currently ranks in the top 20 Argentine wineries in terms of exports and is the leader in organic wine.