Cara Sucia Cepas Tradicionales
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled sausages, charcuterie boards, simple pasta with tomato sauce
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Cara Sucia' (meaning 'dirty face') line is a nostalgic tribute by Hector and Pablo Durigutti to their childhood in Rivadavia, East Mendoza, where they would play in the dusty vineyards until their faces were covered in soil. Historically, East Mendoza was associated with high-yield bulk wine production, but the brothers sought to redeem the region's reputation by working with old-vine traditional varieties. The Cepas Tradicionales is a field blend crafted from co-fermented heritage grapes using minimal-intervention techniques. Fermented with native yeasts in concrete vats without oak aging, this wine captures the rustic, vibrant, and honest spirit of classic Argentine table wines, offering a juicy profile packed with bright red fruit and wild herbs.
🍾 About the Producer
Durigutti Family Winemakers was established in 2002 by winemaking brothers Héctor and Pablo Durigutti, who sought to champion Argentina's heritage terroirs through precise, artisanal winemaking. Their viticultural base centers on Finca Victoria in Las Compuertas, a historic high-altitude appellation within Luján de Cuyo perched above 1,000 meters along the Mendoza River. Here, ancient alluvial soils rich in silt, gravel, and limestone combine with intense Andean sunshine and marked diurnal shifts, creating optimal conditions for certified organic viticulture. Rejecting heavy-handed intervention, the Durigutti brothers emphasize spontaneous native yeast fermentations, concrete vats, ceramic amphorae, and judicious oak aging to preserve varietal clarity and site transparency. Their portfolio reflects an extraordinary stylistic breadth, anchored by the benchmark Proyecto Las Compuertas Malbec and the icon cuvée Esencia, alongside heritage recovery projects such as Cara Sucia and terroir-driven expressions from regional outposts across Mendoza and San Juan.
🍇 Grapes
Barbera, Sangiovese, Syrah, Bonarda, Cardinale, Bequignol