The winery owned by Pablo Fallabrino and Mariana Cerutti launched its new product: a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Tannat with 18 months in oak barrels, which completes their line of reserve wines aimed at their target market: the United States of America.
Making reality her husband's dream, Marta Méndez Parodi together with her sons Mauro and Luis Giménez Méndez has managed the winery founded by his spouse in 1990 until now, when it receives international recognition in the fact of exporting to ten countries and obtaining gold medals in the most important contests in the world.
The Pruning Festival organized by some of the wineries gathered in Uruguay Wine Roads was carried out with great success. Bodegas del Uruguay toured around and witnessed the diversity in styles which marked the difference among the celebrations, thought they all had a common savor: warmness and hospitality.
On Wednesday, August 5, in an event for press, suppliers and friends, Bodega Casa Filgueira presented its new wine Fuga in its three varieties: Tannat, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot rosé in a line aimed at a younger public, starting a category currently inexistent in the Uruguayan wine market.
With a large party at the Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza and the attendance of 200 invited people, the winery from Santos Lugares introduced its newly born products under the name Osiris, the Egyptian god of sprouting vegetation, especially vines, in its two versions: Merlot and Tannat.
Something that impresses well and immediately when one gets to Castel La Puebla, where the winery owned by Héctor Stagnari and Virginia Moreira is located, is the care for details: from the architecture to the landscape design. Certainly it must be the same care that Héctor applies when creating each one of his wines, which gained ample recognition worldwide.
It was more than a century ago when Juan Bautista Passadore harvested the first nebbiolo clusters. Five generations of Passadore and Mutio have honored the work and memory of its founder, consolidating a company that has been an example in and outside their community, firm in adversity and facing the challenge of competing in a market now grown and in the search of excellence.
The Uruguayan wineries have turned to be a desirable target for Argentine tourists, particularly those living in Buenos Aires and the neighboring districts, interested in learning the secrets of wine, since it is much easier, in time and money terms, to get to them rather than going to Mendoza, Neuquén or Salta, as suggested in a recent article in the influential newspaper La Nación.
The traditional winery launched two new products under the label De la Colonia Premium, a Cabernet Sauvignon and an assemblage Tempranillo-Tannat, complementing its exclusive line of wines with a spark of innovation.
In 2009 there will be eighty years since Adelio and Amílcar Ariano, who had arrived from their homeland in Asti, Italy, produced their first 8,800 liters of wine in El Colorado, Canelones. Now the winery managed by Elizabeth -Adelio's granddaughter- produces fine wine and table wine in equal proportion but aims at its total reconversion with a constant philosophy: the enhancement of old practices with new technologies.