2021 La Posta Fazzio Armando Bonarda

Laura Catena - daughter of the famous wine pioneer Nicolas Catena - set up the La Posta wine series to give the smaller winegrowers of Mendoza their own stage, instead of a nameless spot in the local cooperative. The wines are called La Posta, after the typical local pub that you find everywhere on the side of the road.

Estela Armando's family started their own vineyards in 1887, a year after their emigration from Piedmont. This Bonarda comes from a vineyard planted in 1963 by her grandfather. Perfect care and little irrigation produces a high-quality Bonarda. The 'local' Bonarda grape comes from Italy, but has been in Argentina long enough to be completely established there. It is wonderful for making smooth wines that are bursting with fruit. But there are also more serious examples, of which this is one of them. The wine has a lot of strength, and can therefore also undergo wood aging. It matures for 10 months in barriques, of which 70% French and 30% American oak. They are exclusively used barrels, to leave the fruit intact. It is therefore an ideal combination of wood and fruit, with a special depth.

The La Posta Armando Bonarda (Estela Armando) is an ideal combination of wood and fruit, with a special depth, powerful in the scent, sweet fruit, licorice, thyme, vanilla, dried plums and chocolate, raspberries, lush and beautifully supple, coffee , leather, tobacco, wonderfully rounded. Powerful red wine. Tasty with stew with game, hare pepper, grilled sirloin steak, mature cheeses.