Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon Puente Alto 2021 750 ML

Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon Puente Alto 2021 – Available For Pre Sale

The clusters were hand-harvested into 10-kg bins. Once at the winery, the grapes underwent a double selection – clusters and then berries – prior to starting the vinification process.
The alcoholic fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks at temperatures of between 25°C and 26°C and lasted 8-10 days. During the first half of the fermentation, 3 daily pump-overs were implemented, moving a proportion of the juice each day. This quantity was reduced to a half or a third of the volume towards the end of the alcoholic fermentation. Once the fermentation was complete, the tank was hermetically sealed and the wine spent around a week (less time than usual) macerating at temperatures of 23°C-25°C to extract smoother tannins. Once the maceration was complete, the wine from each tank was racked off, tasted and selected by the Don Melchor winemaking team and put into French oak barrels to undergo malolactic fermentation and ageing. Then in July, all the wines were tasted and selected to prepare the final blend, which was then transferred to barrels again to finish the ageing process prior to bottling.