Diamandes Winery

Phone: 0261 – 4765400
Address: Calle Silva s/n, Vista Flores, Tunuyán – Mendoza, Argentina.

In 2005, the Bonnie family, owners of the renowned Château Malartic – Lagravière ( Grand Cru Classé of Graves) and Château Gazin Rocquencourt ( Pessac- Léognan ) decided to leave France to discover new wine horizons. It all started with the acquisition, together with its partners , a block of 130 hectares, located in the Uco Valley, south of Mendoza. There the DiamAndes winery , also co-producer of the prestigious Clos de los Siete wine. Facilities whose architecture blends with the wonderful Andean landscapes, allowing winemaking in exceptional condition from the 2007 harvest.
In the vineyard, everything is made by hand in order to achieve the best quality fruit.

The harvest is done manually during the months of March and April, in small plastic boxes of about 10 kg . Just the grapes arrive in the area of vintage are cooled in cold storage at 5 or 6 and then selecting. The grapes undergo two selection processes, the first in the vineyard ( with small plastic boxes ) and the second in the cellar.

The vinification process is based on the concept of global gravity. After selection , the grapes are transported in a truck to the tank without using bombs. There is macerated in the cold for one week and then fermented at a temperature within 30 or 35 days . The wine is made from 64 small stainless steel tanks thermo- regulated and double wall insulated with polyurethane. This double layer, the unique system in South America, allows the temperature to be controlled more precisely during the extractions.

The rest of the operations such as racking and pressing, also run with the premise of treating grapes “as a fruit.” The hat press layers , allowing a finer selection . The pomace is pressed vertically , creating the wine comes out clean from the press and not weakened in the cleaning operation .
The pressing of white wines has an extension system that allows working with nitrogen, in the absence of oxygen, in order to prevent oxidation.

The wines are vinified in Bodega DiamAndes tanks and then raised in French oak barrels, to which are given at most three uses. The wines have been aged for around 20 months, which are complex and seductive, intense and balanced, bottled red wines in the cellar.