{"title":"Bodegas Lopez","description":"\u003cp\u003eBodegas López is Argentina's great holdout for old-school wine: a Mendoza house that kept aging its reds for years in giant old oak casks while much of the country chased new barrels and big fruit, and has been proven right by time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé López Rivas, an immigrant from the province of Málaga in southern Spain, founded the bodega in Mendoza in 1898, and it is still run by his family, four generations on. The family calls its approach \"El Estilo López.\" At its heart is a cellar of huge French oak toneles, holding 5,000 to 35,000 liters and many decades old, where reds rest anywhere from months to years before bottling. The big, seasoned wood softens tannin and builds savory complexity without adding oaky flavor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe range runs from everyday Malbecs like Vasco Viejo, Traful and Casona López to the classic Château Vieux and Montchenot lines, the latter first made in 1956 and released only after a decade of aging in cask and bottle. Expect mellow, savory, traditionally styled reds with real bottle age at prices that are hard to believe, and a fascinating window onto what Argentine wine tasted like before the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bodegas-lopez-casona-lopez-malbec-2024","title":"Bodegas Lopez, 'Casona Lopez' Malbec, 2024","description":"Malbec from vines planted in 1915 and 1925 — a century-old fruit source in a category where \"old vines\" usually means the 1980s. The grapes come from two López family sites, Los Maitenes in Lunlunta (Maipú) and Los Carolinos in Agrelo (Luján de Cuyo), both on shallow, silty-loam alluvial soils in the High Valley of the Mendoza River, where dry summers and cold nights stretch out ripening and keep the aromatics tight. What keeps this from tasting like every other Mendoza Malbec is the cellar: López ages its reds in enormous old French oak casks from Nancy, the traditional vessels of the early 1900s, which season the wine without ever slathering it in vanilla and toast. Fermentation is a straightforward, moderate maceration in stainless steel kept under 25°C, so the fruit arrives clean and unmanipulated. Casona is the most fruit-forward wine in the López range — a nod to the modern from a house that otherwise makes deliberately old-world Argentine reds — and it's a genuinely serious bottle for the money.","brand":"Polaner [POL]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46481678598201,"sku":"NYC-W-POL-`POL`-091026-12","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Bodegas-Lopez-Casona-Lopez-Malbec-2024-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1789569579"},{"product_id":"bodegas-lopez-vasco-viejo-malbec-mendoza-2025","title":"Bodegas Lopez, Vasco Viejo Malbec Mendoza, 2025","description":"A Mendoza Malbec that tastes like it was made in 1950, not last year — because in a sense it was. Bodegas López ages its reds the way it did in the early 1900s, in enormous old French oak casks from Nancy running from 5 hL up to 35 hL, vessels so big they season the wine without ever stamping oak on it. The result is the opposite of the modern inky, sweet, high-extract Argentine Malbec: fresher, lighter on its feet, built for the table rather than for a scoring sheet. The Vasco Viejo name is a nod to 'El Vasquito', the first wine José Gregorio López Rivas and his brother Rafael made after renting a scrap of land in Maipú — José having left Málaga in 1886 when phylloxera reached Andalusia. The family is now into its fifth generation, with fourth-generation brothers Carlos and Eduardo running things, and this is about as inexpensive an introduction to a genuine old-school Argentine house as exists.","brand":"Polaner [POL]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46481678565433,"sku":"NYC-W-POL-`POL`-091026-11","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Bodegas-Lopez-Vasco-Viejo-Malbec-Mendoza-2025-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1789569580"},{"product_id":"bodegas-lopez-traful-malbec-joven-2025","title":"Bodegas Lopez, Traful Malbec Joven, 2025","description":"A juicy, fruit-driven Malbec from old ungrafted vines — and, unusually for the category, one that tastes like it came from the early 1900s rather than a modern cellar. That's because Bodegas López ages its reds the way Mendoza did a century ago: in very large, very old French oak casks from Nancy, from 5 hL up to 35 hL, vessels so big they lend volume and only a whisper of oak rather than the vanilla-and-extract polish so common in Argentine Malbec. Traful itself sees stainless steel fermentation at no more than 25°C and just three months in those Nancy casks, which is exactly the right amount of wood for a wine meant to be drunk young and often. The name comes from Lake Traful in Patagonia, a beloved vacation spot, and it means \"union\" — fitting for a house now in its fifth generation, founded in 1898 by José Gregorio López Rivas, who left Málaga in 1886 to get away from phylloxera. Old-world sensibility, everyday drinking, remarkable quality for the price.","brand":"Polaner [POL]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46481678630969,"sku":"NYC-W-POL-`POL`-091026-10","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Bodegas-Lopez-Traful-Malbec-Joven-2025-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1789569582"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/bodegas-lopez.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}