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FAMILIA ZUCCARDI Finca Piedra Infinita Supercal Malbec, Valle de Uco 2016 Bottle
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FAMILIA ZUCCARDI Finca Piedra Infinita Supercal Malbec, Valle de Uco 2016 Bottle
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FAMILIA ZUCCARDI Finca Piedra Infinita Supercal Malbec, Valle de Uco
The fruit for the Finca Piedra Infinita Supercal Malbec is sourced from the Finca Piedra Infinita vineyard in the Uco Valley at an altitude of 1100m asl. Planted on alluvial sandy loam soil, with an average depth of 60-80 cm beneath a layer of stone eroded calcium carbonate cover on a clay matrix.
In the winery, the handpicked grapes are de-stemmed and pressed. Fermentation with native yeasts in concrete tanks without epoxy. Ageing occurs in 500L barrels and in concrete basins.
'The Tunuyán is the river that irrigates the most vineyards in Mendoza, and Canal Uco is the first of the hundreds of channels that take water from it. It connects to the river on its right bank, a few kilometres since the Tunuyán leaves the Cordillera. It has been for decades, the vital pulse of irrigation in the South of the Uco Valley. The first lands that, historically, have been irrigated with its waters, were those of the North of Paraje Altamira.
In those lands, formerly cultivated with apple trees, we planted our first vineyard in this "pueblo”. This was the farm to discover Paraje Altamira, and it was the beginning of a path of knowledge and learning, in which we transformed the instinct into the experience.'
- Sebastián Zuccardi, Viticultor.
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Expert Review
Stephen Tanzer
Bright, dark ruby. Very pure flavors of black fruits, tropical dark chocolate, minerals and crushed rock. Densely packed and hugely concentrated but a bit youthfully austere, conveying a powerful impression of energy and saline minerality. At once precise and slightly wild, this wine boasts outstanding inner-mouth chalky lift. Finishes with utterly suave tannins and uncanny minerally-tinged persistence. Zuccardi describes the Supercal and Gravascal bottlings as his lieu-dit wines from the Finca Piedra Infinita estate, noting that they are in a stricter style than the Infinita blend and even "a bit unbalanced and extreme early on in terms of their texture." (from the stoniest, most calcaire-rich portion of the 35-hectare Finca Piedra Infinita estate; done entirely in concrete).
94+ points, Stephen Tanzer, vinous.com
Expert Review
Luis Gutierrez
The depth of the soils is very variable in their vineyards in Altamira, and they have classified the soils in three types and identified a couple of plots in each of their categories of limestone-rich and shallow soils, what they call "supercalcáreo" (super limestone) and "gravas calcáreas" (limestone gravels). The 2016 Supercal comes from a half hectare of very shallow soils where the rocks that are covered by limestone are very close to the surface; it's a kind of soil that works wonders in cold years, none like 2016, a kind of soil that can get too stressed in warmer and drier years, where they harvest date is key and is usually earlier. The wine fermented in concrete eggs, and some 30% of the wine was put in used barriques; so, a similar vinification to the Piedra Infinita and Canal Uco bottlings. This is more austere than the Piedra Infinita but perhaps not as complete or complex. There is some austerity that makes this somewhat wild, in the direction of a wine from Gualtallary. 1,800 bottles were filled in February 2017.
97 points, Wine Advocate (November 2019)