El Montañista Corte de Blancas 2024 hondarrabi beltza This 2020 vintage is aged

This 2020 vintage is aged an extra year for more textural intensity

I can't remember another vintage like it

Growing grapes was a side job for the family

and co-fermented until dry

iron-clad and remarkably polished structure

El Montañista Corte de Blancas 2024 hondarrabi beltza This 2020 vintage is agedFrom Mendoza, where something like 95% of Argentinas wine comes, drive west. That means a lot of driving up towards the Andes, through ever drier valleys at higher elevation, until at 1500 meters youre in the Calingasta valley, where rain rarely falls and the Rio de los Patos only really flows when the snow melts in the andes, when it briefly becomes a wide river and gives irrigation canals water for the narrow strip of agriculture in Calingasta.