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Hand of God, or "Mano de Dios," is a company born of a friendship rekindled: co-founders Santiago Achaval (also the winemaker) and Jon Staenberg met at Stanford University and found a shared love for Argentina and its wines.

Privileged with rustic and diverse landscapes, Argentina boasts steep mountains, lush vegetation, extreme deserts, sparkling glaciers, and flowing waterfalls, and Hand of God wines are meant to evoke this sense of place: the mystery, magic, history, the earth and the sun - "an incredible terroir you can taste on your tongue and feel in your heart."

Hand of God, or "Mano de Dios," was also an unforgettable moment in Argentine history with their 1986 World Cup win, a moment collected and shared in friendships, family, romance and, most certainly, wine.

The 2010 Old Vine Malbec is a world-class wine reflecting what people expect from Argentina.

Tasting Notes:

2010 Old Vine Malbec

92 pts Wine Spectator, 92 pts Wine Advocate, 91 pts Wine Enthusiast, 91 pts Tasting Panel Magazine

100% Malbec

Trailblazing
What does "old vine" mean? By industry standards, the term ‘Old Vine’ usually means a wine whose vines are 30-40 years old, for new world wines. Vinifera can live up to 120 years or more.

What was the winemaking process for the Old Vine Malbec? The Old Vine Malbec was hand-harvested into small plastic bins, and then hand-sorted, and destemmed into one-ton open-top stainless steel fermenting tanks. Cold soak maceration was not warranted, nor any acid corrections, or sulfite additions. The only additions added during the fermentation process were DAP and F33 yeast. Caps were manually punched-down every three hours for a week, then down to three times a day for four days. Skins were pressed off in a pneumatic press to 1 bar. First press fraction was added to main wine, and the rest was discarded. The wine was monitored for two days during gross lees settlement, and then racked to 100% new French oak barrels. The wine stayed on the lees for 20 months and bottled without fining or filtering.

Warm thanks to Jon Staenberg for this generous contribution to our auction (and our first inclusion of Argentinian wine)!

Item Special Note

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