Founded in 1831, Bodega Colomé is the oldest existing winery in Argentina and produces limited amounts of premium quality wines from some of the oldest and highest vineyards in the world.
Colomé can now boast vineyards that are planted at an impressive 3,111m above sea level; the very high altitude enhances the grapes’ quality by influencing the development of colour pigments, tannins and beneficial polyphenols which help to make deeply hued wines of great complexity and varietal power. The vineyards, boasting an impressive four-hectare single vineyard of Malbec and Cabernet planted on original rootstock vines brought from Bordeaux in 1854, are also farmed bio-organically using techniques and knowledge developed by the Calchaqui Indians and Incas more than 2,000 years ago on the same land, and are certified both Organic and Biodynamic from the 2008 vintage.
Bodega Colomé is by its very nature and isolation both sustainable and independent; for example, electricity is generated by turbines driven by the mountain water as it falls from the dramatic peaks which form a backdrop to this beautiful valley, and there is also an organic farm which grows most of the vegetables and rears animals for the team who live on-site.
