Layer Cake One Hundred Percent Hand Crafted Malbec

”Winemaker Notes We allow Layer Cake Malbec to ripen thoroughly on the vine. We tend to harvest four to six weeks after all other neighboring vineyards; a crucial element to the wine’s quality. Each cluster once harvested by hand is then destemmed and sorted – also by hand. Born at the base of the Andes and fed by the purest spring waters. Vineyard Notes The fruit for Layer Cake Malbec comes from a vineyard that is fl anking the Mendoza River in Argentina -a rocky terrain strikingly similar to that of Chateauneuf du Pape in the Rho;ne Valley. The once 5-mile-wide Mendoza River is now mostly vineyard abundant with some of Argentina’s most pristine Malbec vines. A plethora of smooth cobbles on the top bewilders the eye and imagination as to how the vines actually thrive in such a rugged terrain. Silt and gravel make up the subsoil under the larger cobbles. Our vineyard sits at an elevation of about 3 000 feet. The climate is arid with very low rainfall totals. Warm days are follo