another winery today we are visiting at luminis and this is gonna be a

different experience from what we've shown you so far mainly because this is

a small winery operation so we connected with Athena and Christian via Airbnb

because we are renting methines mom's apartment and then we found out that

they offer tours of their winery out in the Maipu Valley so that sounded

really cool and we're gonna be getting a personalized tour with the two of them

and just learning about small wine productions touring their vineyard

seeing how things are done and hopefully trying some wines so that's the plan for

today hope you guys will enjoy it

we are three people project here in Mendoza Argentina the name of the winery

is called luminis again three people operation Christian element who is the

winemaker and also the one grow in the grace Martin Castro I'm also in charge

of you know the sales the marketing you know everything else and we have a young

helping Christian inside the winery the things that that makes us a little bit

different are number one we make hundred percent state-wise that means that we do

not buy juice we do not buy fruit from anybody in Argentina this is very unique

even more interesting about what we do is that Christian element the winemaker

he is also the one managing all our vineyards so he is being one of the very

few people in Argentina growing grapes thinking about trying to make great and

unique wines not thinking about the business of selling grapes remember that

in Argentina there is a total disconnect between growing grapes and making wine

in general and because of everything that I am discussing we are one of the

few projects in Argentina offering at a hundred percent level you know wines

with a true sense of place because of these we have two lives of wines we have

the luminis line of wines dedicated to show you our vineyards located in the

Lujan de Cuyo region which is the most historical that's where most of the old

vines in Maipu Mendoza Argentina are located and we have another line of wines called allamand and

you know to honor Christian this is Christians last name on the label it's

to showcase the characteristics of the oka Valley which is a different valley

southwest of where we are now much closer to the endless range

offering very different and unique characteristics today if you look into

this you will see that the up-and-coming and the you know the trend year place to

get grapes high quality grapes in Mendoza ARgentina are coming from the from Maipu

Valley and that's basically what makes our wines different it's just because

they come from a specific places and that we grow and we take care

this is the resident pooch she loves grapes she loves splashing in

the water and she loves life here in Mendoza Argentina

alright guys now we're gonna show you something super interesting which is the

watering system in place here in Mendoza it's called a cig yes and this was

implemented by the water fish and pre-colonial times the system was an

adopted by the Spaniards and it is still in place today and basically it's a

system where you get access to the water once a week when they open this trapdoor

and the water just starts flowing to your property and that's when you have

to make the most of it make sure you're not wasting a single drop because it's

only once a week and then the water is going to it another neighbor or someone

else so we're gonna demonstrate that right now so you have to prepare the

dish before the water opens and all the work needs to be done here is creating

these 10 rows so the water comes on the radiation beach with this you build like

a minute damn yeah and water starts flowing from here into the different

rows if you have if you have enough hours yeah how do you irrigate all the

region at the same time yeah but if not what you do is you move okay 10 by 10

let's say 10 by 10 yeah these are ten so last time we irrigated the first twenty

or so now we start with a second twenty I see and depending on the volume is how

many rows you can irrigate at the same time this one is URI 1810 and the one

that is down is to relate in another ten but today because of the lack of water

today you are irrigating the whole vineyard once a month prior irrigating a

quarter of the vineyard on the first turn the other quarter and the other

quarter if you are very efficient and you move very quickly and suddenly

because they the volume of water that comes varies so if you have a good

water maybe depending on the vineyard you should be able to to irrigate it all

but generally you don't the dog is loving it

now it is time to drink wine we're gonna be tasting directly from the barrel so

the first thing that we do trying to show that Argentina is much more than

just one way is to start off with this very unique and rare almost extinct grey

variety originally from France it's called San Jeannette Christian the

winemaker and the viticulture list for the winery is the only one growing this

great variety in Argentina and we are one of the few people in the world

making wine out of this grape he has two hectares fully planted 2008 and it is a

very typical white wine for Argentina people do not think about Argentina in

terms of white wines but this is something very unique and again very

atypical why because it's a grape that naturally gives you a wine with low

alcohol very high acid with very unique characteristics that make this wine very

very interesting so let's see great rate from the source

this is 2018 okay keep in mind that the wine still has some a little bit a

little bit of solids in suspension yes you still have a little bit of co2 going

so you have to move it salut totally different aroma I see really good it's

so smooth very smooth very Bible easy to drink the part that I like the most

about this wine is the very good level of acidity yeah

and that finish almost like saline finish yeah you know reminds me a lot of

you know eating oysters yeah again we are very happy with this wine

and it's great to be trying a very unique product yeah six thousand bottles

per year this one only yeah Christian is always is also using this part of this

he's putting into a sparkling wine that he's making equal parts of Pinot Noir

Chardonnay and Sanjana so the next the next three wines that we are going to

taste off the tanks the three of them are Malbec the idea here is that you

guys can taste capture internalize the differentiation between the three

different Malbecs grown and made from three different regions the objective

here is for people to understand that in Argentina like every words in the world

depending where you grow the grapes and however you turn your eyes you are going

to have different characteristics that are only unique to the place where that

wine is coming from remember that all our wines are under present state

we do not buy juice we do not buy food from anybody so all our wise represent a

direct connection between what's here and the place where the grapes were

grown so we are going to taste now a hundred percent Malbec from el carousel

el carousel is a place that is south of here approximately 20 kilometers like on

the same area that we are here but south 20 kilometers this vineyard belongs to

krishna's mother and Christian with Raymond his father they have been worked

in this place for 40 years and we have a Malbec Cabernet Sauvignon we have the

San Jeannette in that vineyard as well so this is the dermelect from from this

area 2018 vintage even in summer you have very cold nights so we get a Malbec

that we like not very aromatic totally different and

that's the most important thing for us that people see how different it is

different we we like it you've achieved your goal yes that's how we define

success we've been drinking a lot of wine and when those are these last few

days but the flavors here it's unlike anything we've tasted before in a

different profile it's a different wine altogether the next one that we are

going to taste is also a cannabis and Malbec but this time we are going to

travel southwest to the yuca Valley budget it's a higher altitude Valley

closer to the unders range compared to this area we another in the southern

hemisphere South is cooler so we are moving into a cooler area and when

you're in Mendoza Argentina as you go up into the mountains you are going to get into even

cooler places so the main differentiation between the last the

prismatic and the next one that we are going to taste is the place much fresher

vase and very cold night and you are going to see how different the Malbec

expresses itself there even from the onset that the color is different the

aromatic profile is different the acidity level is different the alcohol

is you want to be a little bit lower so we are going to see a complete you know

different expression of the Malbec grown in the quad

the aroma is totally different to the one that wishes hard is the same the

same here right same by the different locations in

Mendoza and anything that makes the difference understanding that my leg has

many faces if you want to call it and start learning you know which one comes

from where and also it's good for the consumer to start identifying okay you

know I like this area better than the other one and you can start following

people growing or making wine in different places just because of how you

like it gee this wine is amazing this one this

one so far this is my very favorite mobile my favorite Wow on the whole trip

on the whole trip man that's impressive what do you think ugly and amazed by the

differences within like one variety of grapes congratulations my man these

wineries out of this world I'm not going to put it in the indica I want to drink

this one you know in you go so now what we are going to do is we are going to

taste another Malbec from the yuca Valley from the 2018 vintage another

producer so here you now you can compare and contrast even within the same Echo

Valley you can come another interpretation of

what my leg is about

third Malbec of the Day dinner mint aroma

I hear these producer words with more oak in the fermentation which you can

start getting into this wine would be exactly really good wine also but you

can you can feel more the wood flavor exists one yeah this one you can feel a

little bit more woody will work with more with more oak beforehand yeah which

we don't say varietal same place but different you know philosophical

approaches to to how to make the wine but it's so smooth this wine is also so

smooth is unbelievable you know it has a more woody flavor than the one we just

tried smooth as silk when it comes down a little bit spicy

- comes in this case specifically from the addition of the oak the typical pair

for Malbec from do koalas kind of wild but the other good thing about Malbec is

that my leg is such a versatile you know variety that depending on the producer

depending on the style of the wine where is made how it's made that you can have

Malbec you know with a with a very greasy mistake but you can go all the

way to a light pasta so it's a it's much more about finding the profile of the

maker and then you designing with what with what you are going to pair it you

are having like a you know a monolithic approach to how to pair Malbec it very

slow it's a wide spectrum exactly to make sense excellent wine again yeah

it's a beauty of a wine go find it and you see what I'm gonna I'm talking about

you know this is the last wine that we will taste is a wine that we

not make it our friends are making the wine here but it's a one that I like to

include as part of the experience as part of the tasting because in our quest

to show that as the tears much more than just Malbec here we can taste a blend of

Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc which is not typical it's not usual Cabernet

Franc is becoming popular and they redeem and adhere in in Argentina these

people work really wonder wise they are making their wines here with us and

again is it's a good opportunity for people visiting us you know to taste

something other than you know just your regular receiver though and Kalla

nephron 50/50 50/50 French variety generally

used for for blending purposes all right we are trying something we've never had

before a very fresh aroma yeah for powers you with the freshness what do

you guys think that one like weeks of your taste buds it is the morning a lot

to have this wine with a nice barbecue con unas a low somehow when I'm drinking

this wine is telling me asado barbecue I love to have this one

with a barbecue believe me very smooth no good wines all of them are very

smooth wines you know really good good stuff if you want to visit us and come

here for the experiences that we that we offer we offer a short experience in

which we taste of the tanks he said two and a half I will experience we talked

about with the culture we talked about irrigation we talked about peak in

processing you know fermentation we go into the winery and we taste wines of

the tanks that's one thing that we offer them we offer a full day tour in which

we partner with other two small wineries that belong to friends of ours we take

you to the other two wineries and then we bring