As usually happens with the releases of their tanks,
the new Netflix series is the topic of conversation of the moment
. This week it was The Three Body Problem, from the creators of Game of Thrones, which is among the most watched on the platform. But the talk does not only revolve around the space invasions that are the axis of the plot, but also about
an Argentine who came to the screen
.
This time it is not a person: it is a product.
More precisely, a wine
. And the curious thing is the way he ended up in a scene, immortalized in a PNT that was not such.
“I found out through WhatsApp messages from people who watched the series,” Marcos Jofré, the CEO of Trivento, the winery that produces the wine in question,
Trivento Golden Reserve Malbec
, told
Clarín
. In a shot of the series, one of the characters holds it in his hand and the label of the bottle is clearly seen, a 2019 vintage. According to the executive, there was no agreed agreement. “It's totally lucky for me,” he acknowledged.
What is that wine like and how did it end up in a Netflix series?
The second part of the question does not have an official answer, although Trivento outlines some. And they have to do with the fact that the series was filmed in the United Kingdom and the United States, the winery's two main export markets. According to a report by the specialized consulting firm IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, in the last three years Trivento was the best-selling Argentine wine brand in the world.
About 90% of the series' wine production is exported. In the foreign market, it is around 20 dollars. Here, the suggested price of the winery is $12,990. A competitive price, both locally and abroad, for a wine of these characteristics, which was
highlighted by international critics
such as Tim Atkin, James Suckling and Patricio Tapia.
Magdalena Viani is a super premium winemaker at Trivento. She says that the Golden Reserve is
a very important wine in the history of the winery
because it was the first high-end wine that it began to produce, in 2000, just four years after the Chilean group Concha y Toro founded it in Mendoza ( It was his first investment abroad). Years later, another higher level wine was added, the Eolo, but the Golden Reserve "was born as the icon wine" and for that reason, the winemaker says, it has a very special value for them. She has it too, she says,
"because of the story this wine tells
. "
It came onto the market
before the Malbec boom from Valle de Uco
. So, what the Trivento winemaking team wanted to do was produce a Malbec from the best terroir in Argentina.
“When you create a wine, there are two very important points: the varietal and the origin of that varietal. Malbec was chosen because of the importance of this strain as Argentines and Luján de Cuyo because of the importance of this wine-growing area, where
Malbec found its first place in Mendoza
,” he explains.
In Luján de Cuyo are some of
the oldest vineyards in Mendoza
, planted by immigrants. “Thanks to this legacy we can make wines in vineyards that are more than 80 years old in
a microclimate with wonderful characteristics
marked by the Mendoza River, the freshness of the Cordillera, the altitude and the alluvial soils,” details the winemaker, who highlights that this wine “tells this story, it is
a Malbec that represents 100% Luján de Cuyo
.”
Trivento Golden Reserve Malbec, the wine that came to the Netflix screen.
Viani explains that the wine in the series is a
blend of Malbec
, created from grapes of that varietal from plots in four areas of Luján de Cuyo (Vistalba, Las Compuertas, Agrelo and Pedriel) that are vinified in stainless steel tanks. . The variations in the blend are minimal from year to year. It is
aged for 12 months in French oak
, of which 90% is aged in barrels (only 20% first use) and the remaining 10% is in foudre (the largest barrels).
What's the score? The tasting notes will say that it is "a vigorous red wine with violet tints, intense aromas of red fruits and silky tannins that give a juicy finish."
The winemaker will explain that these characteristics are precisely given by the terroir, and that is why – always speaking in generalities, obviously –
it differs from a wine from the Uco Valley area
.
“In general, Malbecs from Luján de Cuyo tend to have much more red fruit on the nose, such as cherry and plum, and on the palate there is a characteristic descriptor of round, sweet, soft tannins. In Valle de Uco they tend to have more black fruit, to have more closed aromas and in the mouth, due to the type of soil, you find more linear profiles with a more marked acid center in the mouth and tannins with greater tension,” he explains.
It is, then,
one of those called “round” wines
, pleasant to the palate, very gastronomic, which Viani recommends trying with meats prepared both on the grill and in pot cooking, in pasta with a red sauce or some heavier sauce. of cream or also alone, why not,
watching a series on the screen
.
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