Pairings and Creole songs: 5 suggestions from Bodega Murga to celebrate

This October 31 the country is preparing for the jarana for the Day of the Creole song, an occasion to celebrate our pisco and national wines. For this reason, Pietra Possamaiwinemaker at Bodega Murga in the Pisco Valley, has prepared for us the best pisco and wine suggestions and their respective Creole accompaniments to better enjoy them.

But, how to celebrate this date without a waltz or a marinera? To do this, Arturo Inga, manager of the winery and specialist in Creole music, recommends the most suitable songs to listen to and dance to with a pisco in one hand and a botifarra in the other.

1. Pisco Murga Negra Criolla 2018 with sausage

“Comarca” is Arturo Inga’s recommendation to listen to while enjoying the Murga Negra Criolla pisco and a powerful botifarra: “This song is very old and mentions a very noble grape, the Creole black grape, which allows it to work well in wines, pisco and even for eating. The black grape is good.”

Characteristic

100% Creole black strain (Listan Prieto). Vinification: Low intervention, with two days of maceration on their own skins. Spontaneous fermentation. Free of chemicals and oenological additives. Not filtered. Distillation: In copper stills, made with the highest purity electrolytic copper. The pisco is kept for at least 30 months in stainless steel tanks.

2. Pisco Murga Italia 2018 with a chocolate and lucuma dessert

“Serene as a star is pisco, the most beautiful promise of fantasy and it is almost a poetry when it sleeps in the bottle”point to the letter “Marineras de Lima for pisco. Andar andar”, the music recommended by Arturo Inga to listen to while drinking and pairing this pisco with a delicious chocolate and lucuma dessert. “The song that would accompany the Murga Italia pisco would be a marinera because it is a pretty nice song and a bit long”suggests Inga, as if to enjoy this pairing slowly until the marinera is finished.

Characteristic

100% Italian strain (Muscat of Alexandria). Vinification: Low intervention, with two days of maceration on their own skins. Spontaneous fermentation. Free of chemicals and oenological additives. Not filtered. Distillation: In electrolytic copper stills of the highest purity. The pisco is kept for at least 30 months in stainless steel tanks.

3. Pisco Murga Quebranta 2018 with caucau, sarza de patita

“Tato Guzmán (José Guzmán), left several beautiful songs, among them ‘Quebranto’, the best known of his repertoire and the favorite of Rosa Guzmán, his daughter. Rosita, she has a spectacular voice, which unfortunately began to sound 50 years later since, during her youth, she only sang at her house “Inga tells about this waltz called “Quebranto”, ideal to listen to with a caucau and his sarza de patita.

Characteristic

Strain 100% breaks. Vinification: Low intervention, with two days of maceration on their own skins. Spontaneous fermentation. Free of chemicals and oenological additives. Not filtered. Distillation: In copper stills, made with the highest purity electrolytic copper. The pisco is kept for at least 30 months in stainless steel tanks.

4. Mollar wine aged in concrete egg with lomo saltado

To pair the Mollar wine from Bodega Murga, Possamai recommends a classic Creole dish such as lomo saltado. What to listen while? Manuel Acosta Ojeda could not be missing from these recommendations: “Manuel Acosta is one of the composers that I appreciate the most. I met him in life and I accompanied him many times to his radio program back in 1984. He died leaving an extensive work of very good quality in terms of lyrics. Several say that he is the greatest Creole poet in Peru”, Arturo Inga points out

Characteristic

100% mollar strain. Vinification: Low intervention. 20 days of skin maceration. Fermentation with native yeasts. No addition of chemicals or oenological inputs. Not filtered. Aging in stainless steel tank and concrete egg. Sensory characteristics: At sight it has a cherry red color, with orange reflections. On the nose, it has notes of red fruits, such as ripe raspberry and freshly harvested strawberries. On the palate, the entrance is felt with the astringent characteristic of the mollar grape, medium alcoholic perception without losing freshness, completely dry and with a long persistence.

5. Blend 2021 wine with carapulcra

“This wine reminds me a lot of Lima, and also of the waltzes, sung especially by Manolo Castillo and his son Carlos Castillo, two very dear people. Manolo has been a singer for many years and, despite his advanced age, he still continues to sing. On the other hand, his son, much younger, is a prestigious veterinarian, but with a powerful and spectacular voice ”comments Arturo Inga.

This waltz and cherry-colored wine, Pietra Possamai proposes to accompany them with a carapulcra.

Characteristic

Strain 33% albilla, 33% quebranta, 33% criolla black. Vinification: Cutting of three different grapes: black criolla, albilla and quebranta, co-fermented. Low intervention. 21 days of skin maceration. Fermentation with native yeasts. No addition of chemicals or oenological inputs. Not filtered. Aging in stainless steel tank.

Tasting notes: cherry colored wine with orange reflections. On the nose, aromas of freshly made blackberry compote, sweet sour orange and ripe strawberries are uncovered. On the palate, we find the characteristic astringency of the quebranta, with the subtlety of aromas of the albilla and the marked but discreet dry and intense character of the black criolla, and it has a longer persistence.