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Wine Description
The Story
Our Montes Alpha Syrah is made with selected grapes from our Colchagua Valley vineyards grown under our “Dry Farming” philosophy. Under this system we leave nature to do the job of irrigation through rain.
We don’t irrigate unless nature does not provide us with the enough minimum rain that we have determined our vines need in which case we irrigate to compensate the difference. Dry Farming increases the final quality of the wines with more...
Wine Information
Alcohol: 14.8%
pH: 3.50 g/l
Total Acidity: 3.47 g/l
Residual Sugar: 2.9 g/l
Vineyard yield: 7 tons per hectare (2.8 tons per acre)
Barrel Aging: 55% of the wine is aged for 12 months in French oak barrels with 1, 2, or 3 uses.
HARVEST
Period: Throughout the entire month of April.
The weather during the 2011–2012 season presented very pronounced cold and hot periods. Rainfall was scant due to the influence of the L...
