[ENG/ESP] Wine route in San Rafael, Province of Mendoza, Argentina🍷 / Ruta del vino en San Rafael Provincia de Mendoza🍷

in Mendoza fall 300 milliliters of water per year in the form of rain, this small amount of water coupled with the desert climate and little humid makes the sugar in the grapes is more concentrated which results in a high quality wine.

The wine route takes place in Mendoza, Uco Valley and San Rafael. As I was in San Rafael, I visited the Rubio winery. A company that besides planting vineyards, they have other fruit crops such as pears, peaches, plums, and olive groves.

They make jams, dried fruits and process olive oil. The small wineries are called boutiques and most of their production is exported to other countries. They are usually exclusive wines that you will only get on site. From the tour of this winery I learned many things that I want to share with you

When the grapes are harvested, they are fermented for 8 to 10 days. In this fermentation process, the sugar in the grape juice becomes alcohol. In the case of red wine, it is fermented with the skin, since it is the skin that gives the wine its color.

After the yeast found in the grape skin has consumed all the sugar in the juice, the fermentation product is passed through a press, separating the fermented grape juice from the skin and seeds, at which point the wine is halfway through the winemaking process.

After pressing the must, the resulting juice is taken to a vat to stabilize and decant some of the particles that still remain from the pressing process. During this decanting process, it is passed from vat to vat until it is transferred to a tank. Once the wine arrives in the tank, it is filtered and then it goes to the refrigerator where it spends from 5 months to 1 year, this is the time where the wine is macerated in the cellar and from there it is bottled.

• Other products derived from grapes can be made from the remains of the first pressing, such as seed oil used in medicine and cosmetology products.
  -It is important that the cork that is placed in the wine that is going to last for a long time is made of cork oak so that the wine will not be stung.
• The synthetic cork shrinks with temperature changes and the wine will be stung.
• If you produce a bad wine, no matter how many years go by... it will continue to be a bad wine.
• Good wine begins with a process that starts in the vineyard and continues with quality control and step by step in the winery.
• Of the approximately 1200 grape varieties that exist, only 120 are suitable for making wine.
• The flavor of the wine will depend on the grape variety as well as other factors such as climate, soil and humidity.
• The vineyards are planted with the trellis system and are oriented from north to south, so that the sun shines all day long. This allows the grapes to ripen with all the sugar concentration necessary to make a quality wine.

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