Ver Sacrum - Doña Mencia de los Andes 2023

Eduardo Soler and two friends started Ver Sacrum in 2012 with the concept of growing and vinifying Rhone varietals.  Their winemaking ethos focuses on fresh, low alcohol, lighter skin contact, native yeast, honest, and easy drinking wines.  All grapes are hand harvested and most are foot crushed  with minimal intervention in the vineyards and winery and no corrections, filtration, or pump overs.  They currently make wine from their small vineyard in Los Chacayes, Uco Valley where they have  planted Grenache, Monastrell, Carignan, Roussane, Marsanne, Mencia, Syrah, Teroldego, and Nebbiolo.  Eduardo came into winemaking after returning to Mendoza and reuniting with some of the most adventurous growers of Argentina.  He is also an avid mountaineer who has climbed multiple famous peaks and worked ski patrol in Aspen and Mendoza for many years.  He currently owns and operates a small ski resort 2 hours outside of Mendoza.  “When the old sent their young to found new villages, bringing grape vines to start new vineyards, they gave off by a ceremony called the sacred spring or Ver Sacrum.  Since then, the Ver Sacrum is a symbol of the new tribe, new art, new vine.  We renew this ancient vow, with the audacity create something new.  This is our Ver Sacrum”- Eduardo Soler.

This wine is 100% hand harvested Mencia from a single .4 Hectare plot within the estate vineyard in the Los Chacayes IG inside the Uco Valley.

50% stem inclusion at maceration then racked before fermentation. Macerated for 4 days in 400L open top plastic bins and then fermented in 225 used French oak barrels. Aged 18 months in used 225L French Oak barrels and then 20 months in bottle before release.

Producer: Ver Sacrum

Country: Argentina

Region: Mendoza

Varietal: Mencia

Appellation: Chacayes

Vintage: 2023

Size: 750ml