The Story
A Malbec that throws out the muscular Mendoza playbook in favor of vitality and crunch. Alpamanta works a biodynamic estate in Ugarteche, Lujan de Cuyo, where founders from Austria, Switzerland and France farm with composting, lunar cycles, and a near-religious commitment to letting place speak. Natal is the unoaked, juicy expression of the house: spontaneous fermentation, no additives, stainless steel only, bottled fresh to capture the lift and energy that this corner of Mendoza can show when nobody is trying to make it heavier than it wants to be. It drinks like Malbec rediscovering itself.
Description
A Malbec that throws out the muscular Mendoza playbook in favor of vitality and crunch. Alpamanta works a biodynamic estate in Ugarteche, Lujan de Cuyo, where founders from Austria, Switzerland and France farm with composting, lunar cycles, and a near-religious commitment to letting place speak. Natal is the unoaked, juicy expression of the house: spontaneous fermentation, no additives, stainless steel only, bottled fresh to capture the lift and energy that this corner of Mendoza can show when nobody is trying to make it heavier than it wants to be. It drinks like Malbec rediscovering itself.