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Location
Familia Marguery produces its wines in Cruz de Piedra, Maipú.
With a capacity of 160,000 litres, the winery is equipped with stainless
steel tanks and temperature controls, machine press, conveyor belt
for selecting the grapes and latest generation of pumps.
In the winery...
Once the winemakers have decided upon the polyphenolic maturation
of the grains early in the morning, the harvest, done by hand in
16 kilo-boxes, starts. At this stage, great care should be taken
for the grapes to be clean, fresh and healthy when arriving at the
winery.
After a thorough selection, only the grains with no defects or rips
are placed into a crushing machine which lightly squeezes them.
The resulting mush of flesh, skins and juice is pumped into stainless
steel tanks for the first fermentation to start. Cultured yeasts
are added and temperature rises naturally up to 28°C, due to
soft contact treatments for extracting sweet and mature tannins.
Temperature is controlled between 20°C to 23°C till the
end of the process. After 25/30 days of maceration, malolactic fermentation
takes place. When this process finishes, the wine is finally stored
in oak casks for 12 months.
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