Pinot Noir 2021 Mendoza Las Estelas

Estela Perinetti and her wines are known as Las Estelas.

Estela was one of the first of South America’s rapidly growing family of women winemakers.

She spent more than two decades heading up some of Catena’s most high profile winery projects and she has been very much in demand as one of Mendoza’s leading consultants since.

Made in partnership with Diego Rosso, whose Pinot vines in Tunuyán are amongst the oldest in the Uco, this is clone 777 planted in the 1990s and made with the utmost respect for this most fickle of grapes.

Everything is done by hand, with fermentation in a combination of concrete eggs and old barrels, fully destemmed with partial whole bunch.

100% of the wine is aged for 10 months in second use French oak.

On the nose, bounteous wild red fruits and the unmistakable whiff of forest floor; in the mouth silky tannins and fresh juicy fruit with a long finish.

This is definitely New World Pinot Noir approaching its South American best and sees Argentina taking a seat at the top table.