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DISCOVERY
Winemaker Mulet explains that “being the only
winery in Argentina focusing exclusively on
producing sparkling wines using the traditional
method is an important differentiator. Our
know-how is unique because we are specialists
in what we do and we pour all our energy into
sparkling offerings. In Argentina there are very
good producers of sparkling wines and together
with imported products they form a broad range
for increasingly knowledgeable and demanding
consumers. This creates a virtuous circle that
drives the segment on a daily basis”.
CRUZAT SEEKS TO PRODUCE SPARKLING WINES WITH A STYLE CHARACTERISED BY A FINE,
ELEGANT AND ARTICULATE BOUQUET
PHILIPPE CARAGUEL:
A MENDOZA NATIVE WITH
FRENCH EXPERIENCE
Philippe Caraguel is so confident in his sparkling
wines that he decided to give his own name to his
products. He first studied agronomy in Mendoza
and worked at the Chandon subsidiary in Argentina,
where he gained his first experience with
sparkling wines. But then he switched to France
thanks to a scholarship to study for a Masters
in Viticulture and Oenology at the University of
Montpellier, where he graduated with the French
National Diploma in Oenology. Once he finished
his Master’s degree, Caraguel went to Champagne,
where he did a placement at Moët & Chandon,
continuing to work with the company for a year
and a half subsequently.
That experience would prove to be decisive. Caraguel
recounts: “I was part of a very professional
group led by Richard Geoffroy, the-then chef de
cave at Dom Perignon. I gained a huge amount of
knowledge which later, when I returned to Argentina,
I applied to my own professional project”.
His project, Philippe Caraguel, has a French
partner, Jean-Etienne Beaune, who owns the
Atamisque winery in Tupungato, in Mendoza’s
Uco Valley. “The art of making our sparkling wines
begins with growing Chardonnay grapes on the
best plots on our estate, located in outstanding
sites in San José, Tupungato, in the Uco Valley.
These produce fruit of the highest winemaking
PHILIPPE CARAGUEL’S EXPERTISE COMES PARTLY FROM A PLACEMENT AT MOËT &
CHANDON, IN FRANCE’S CHAMPAGNE REGION
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