Paz Bonarda
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled flank steak, slow-cooked pork shoulder, roasted root vegetables
✨ Technical Specifications
Finca Las Moras's 'Paz' range represents a harmonious relationship with the rugged, high-altitude desert of San Juan. The name 'Paz' (meaning peace) evokes the serene, silent beauty of the Andean foothills where these vines thrive. While Malbec often steals the Argentine spotlight, this wine shines a brilliant light on Bonarda—a grape of Italian origin that has found a highly expressive home in Argentina. Grown in the alluvial soils of San Juan's high-altitude valleys, the grapes benefit from intense solar radiation and dramatic diurnal temperature shifts. This results in a deeply colored, aromatic red. The wine undergoes careful aging in oak barrels, which rounds out its naturally vibrant acidity and adds layers of sweet spice, cocoa, and tobacco to its core of lush plum and blackberry fruit.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1993 under the aegis of Grupo Peñaflor, Finca Las Moras emerged as a transformative force in the viticultural landscape of San Juan, Argentina. Taking its name from the mulberry trees (moras) framing its parcels, the estate encompasses over 1,100 hectares distributed across three distinct sub-regions: the warm alluvial Tulum Valley, intermediate Zonda Valley, and the high-altitude frontier of the Pedernal Valley, situated at 1,350 to 1,400 meters above sea level. In Pedernal, cooling Andean breezes, significant diurnal temperature variation, and calcareous, gravel-strewn soils yield fruit marked by brisk natural acidity and exceptional aromatic tension. Led viticulturally by long-tenured chief winemaker Eduardo Casademont, the estate balances wide commercial reach with artisanal experimentation. While renowned for pioneering premium Syrah and Malbec, Finca Las Moras crafts distinctive white wines ranging from crisp, high-elevation Black Label Sauvignon Blanc and organic Chardonnay to traditional Pedro Ximénez aged biologically under flor, such as Pedrito.
🍇 Grapes
Bonarda
🍷 ABV
13.5% - 14.5%