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Beefsteak Club Ehrmanns Wines

UK-based Ehrmanns is launching a new Organic Reserve Tannat from Argentina’s Cafayate Valley, which it says has “great potential” in the market.

The wine is produced in partnership with the family-owned Bodega Nanni, using a blend from selected vineyards at very high altitudes in Salta Province’s Cafayate Valley. Here the dry and sunny climate is conducive to organic viticulture, and the Reserve Malbec is made from handpicked grapes grown on deep sandy-loam soils, the company said. “Care is taken at every stage of the winemaking process, resulting a in a complex Tannat with smooth tannins and notes of cassis, chocolate, tobacco and spice from oak.”

“We think that Tannat from Argentina has great potential, especially as a partner for food. Much work has been done to soften the tannins of this thick-skinned grape, but we are seeing wines of deep colour and concentrated fruit which are still approachable in mouthfeel and structure,” a spokesman said.

The company has developed a couple of other wines that will now be revealed to the UK market later in the year.