Diamandes De Uco Grande Reserve

In the very heart of Clos de los Siete (Uco Valley, Mendoza), Bodega DiamAndes produces intense, complex, elegant wines for enjoying now or for laying down. In this unique terroir - a single block of 130 hectares at 1,000 metres above sea level in the Andes foothills - our proud Bordeaux heritage converges with the very best of Argentinean expertise.

Surface : 130 hectares

Terroir : Clay and sand with a a large quantity of pebbles. In the Uco Valley, in the foothills of the Andes Mountains, at an altitude of 1100 m.

Planting density : 5 500 plants per ha Vine care : Vertical trellising, green harvest, handed leaf thinning Harvest :

Handed picking with small crates, cooling in cold room, handed double sorting.

No crushing Vinification : Entirely gravity-operated process. Gentle extractions with fractional pumping over; slow, fermentation kinetics at low temperatures. 64 small temperature-controlled stainless steel vats (isolated with a double jacket). Unique in South America !

Ageing in French oak barrels.