Domingo Molina
Farming: Heroic viticolture farming
Website: domingomolina.com.ar
Camino a Yacochuya Norte,
A4427 Cafayate, Salta, Argentina
INTRO
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BIO
Domingo and Molina are the last name of Palo and his wife Elenor. They choose to give both their last name to the winery to underline how the winery is part of the family, like one of their children.
In 1959 Palo bought some vines from an Italian immigrant who arrived in Cafayate, Salta Argentina, before World War One. In 1966 he started planting more vines between Cafayate and the Yacochuya Valley. In early 2000 he discovered a land, that he named the Rupestre Valley, in a very isolated and unique area north of Cafayate at 7350 feet of elevation. While developing vineyards in the Rupestre Valley, the Domingo family also helped the indigenous community living in that area, providing jobs and building schools for the children.
The Domingo family has always been very respectful towards the environment. 20 years ago Palo’s sons, Osvoldo-Rafael-Gabriel, joined the family winery and working with their father and observing the terroir, they realized that they could produce excellent wines with a natural structure, only by using concrete in fermentation and stainless steel for aging. The new line is named Hermanos, which means “Brothers” in Spanish.
BIO
Domingo and Molina are the last name of Palo and his wife Elenor. They choose to give both their last name to the winery to underline how the winery is part of the family, like one of their children.
In 1959 Palo bought some vines from an Italian immigrant who arrived in Cafayate, Salta Argentina, before World War One. In 1966 he started planting more vines between Cafayate and the Yacochuya Valley. In early 2000 he discovered a land, that he named the Rupestre Valley, in a very isolated and unique area north of Cafayate at 7350 feet of elevation. While developing vineyards in the Rupestre Valley, the Domingo family also helped the indigenous community living in that area, providing jobs and building schools for the children. The Domingo family has always been very respectful towards the environment. 20 years ago Palo’s sons, Osvoldo-Rafael-Gabriel, joined the family winery and working with their father and observing the terroir, they realized that they could produce excellent wines with a natural structure, only by using concrete in fermentation and stainless steel for aging. The new line is named Hermanos, which means “Brothers” in Spanish.
WINE
Domingo Molina Torrontes
2017
Hermanos Tannat
2017
Hermanos Malbec
2017
Domingo Molina Malbec
2017
M2
2015
Rupestre
2014
WINE
Domingo Molina Torrontes
2017
Hermanos Tannat
2017
Hermanos Malbec
2017
Domingo Molina Malbec
2017
M2
2015
Rupestre
2014
Yacochuya Valley is the best place to grow torrontes. Wild herbs, pear and a remote tropical note on the nose, juicy and fulfilling on the palate with a dry and mineral finish. 5% of the wines ferment and age in oak barrels. One of the best interpretations of the grape you can get!
Grapes come from the Rupestre Valley, a unique place where the 7350 feet of elevation, the cool temperature at night with 340 days of sun enables the tannat to ripe slowly and to perfection, so that no oak is needed in aging. Nice bold wine with rustic but pleasant tannins.
Grapes are harvested in Cafayate on a sandy soil with white rocks. Fermented in concrete and aged in stainless steel, Hermanos Malbec is fruity upfront, smooth and round on the palate, with a pleasant minerality on the finish.
Grapes come from 100+ years old vines, partly aged in oak barrels for 8 months. Ripe plums and tobacco fragrance on the nose, voluptuous on the palate with soft tannins on the finish.
The “exponential taste of Malbec”: 100+years old vines blended with the one coming from the Rupestre Valley, a hidden paradise, where there is no electricity, desertic-alluvial soil, and vines are watered by gravitation.
Deep purple color, plums, berries and tobacco on the nose, bold and vibrant on the palate, persistent smooth finish.
Rupestre translates in “cave drawings” as the ones found on property. A hidden paradise at 7.300 feet of elevation, with desertic-alluvial soil, where there is no electricity, and vines are watered by gravitation. Merlot, Tannat and Malbec particularly benefit from this clime, and Rupestre is the perfect blend of them.