Miami, FL, September 26, 2022: Ameri Red Blend, the single-vineyard flagship wine of Argentina’s Domaine Bousquet, is being joined by a varietally designated Malbec. Like the Red Blend, Ameri Malbec 2019 is made in limited quantities, with an SRP of $37. Family-owned Domaine Bousquet in the Uco Valley is Argentina’s largest exporter of certified organic wines.
In 2019, while tasting component wines for the Ameri Red Blend, Domaine Bousquet co-owners, husband-and-wife Anne Bousquet and Ameri namesake Labid al Ameri, with winemaker Rodrigo Serrano, agreed that the component wines were starting to show so well that the time had come to showcase them individually, beginning with the 2019 Malbec.
“Wine buyers can excite their customers by offering something unusual: the opportunity to taste both the final blend and its individual components. Few producers offer buyers that option.” — Domaine Bousquet co-owner, Labid Al Ameri
The original Ameri Red Blend made its U.S. debut with the 2011 vintage, with the current 2019 vintage a blend of 60% Malbec, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Syrah and 10% Merlot. Both the original Red Blend and the new varietal 2019Malbec are aged in French oak for around a year.
All fruit originates in Domaine Bousquet Vineyard, planted in 1998 on virgin land in the Uco Valley’s Alto Gualtallery zone, at an altitude of about 4,125 feet. Organically farmed from get-go, a transition to biodynamics is now underway, with certification projected for 2023.
Ameri Malbec 2019 / SRP $37: AVAILABLE IN CA, NJ, NY, MA, OR and WA.
Ameri Red Blend 2019 / SRP $37: AVAILABLE MAJOR MARKETS NATIONWIDE
Imported by Origins Organic, Miami, FL
Domaine Bousquet
Domaine Bousquet was founded on virgin land by French-born pioneer Jean Bousquet in 1997 in the Gualtallary sub-zone of Tupungato in Mendoza’s Uco Valley. Today, the award-winning estate, run by daughter Anne Bousquet and husband Labid al Ameri, is Argentina’s largest exporter of wines made from certified organic grapes. All wines are made from 100% certified organic fruit grown at a cool 4,000-foot-high altitude and crafted with a French winemaking sensibility.
