Alpamanta Malbec Natal 2023 SF Chronicle - Past Pick it's built on restraint rather

it's built on restraint rather than richness

Dense red fruit

Serve it cold but not ice cold

Limited tilling

ferments with wild yeast before 6 months in neutral oak and stainless steel

Alpamanta Malbec Natal 2023 SF Chronicle - Past Pick it's built on restraint ratherA Malbec that throws out the muscular Mendoza playbook in favor of vitality and crunch. Alpamanta works a biodynamic estate in Ugarteche, Lujan de Cuyo, where founders from Austria, Switzerland and France farm with composting, lunar cycles, and a near religious commitment to letting place speak. Natal is the unoaked, juicy expression of the house: spontaneous fermentation, no additives, stainless steel only, bottled fresh to capture the lift and