Finca Los Membrillos Semillon
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
grilled sea bass, roasted pork belly, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Finca Los Membrillos, named after the quince trees ('membrillos') that border the estate, is located in Vista Flores within the Uco Valley at an elevation of over 1,000 meters. While Mendoza is globally famous for its reds, this vineyard harbors a deep respect for Argentina's historical white wine heritage, specifically Semillon, which was once the country's most widely planted white grape. Sebastián Zuccardi crafts this wine to showcase the grape's textured, mineral-driven potential when grown in alluvial soils rich in calcium carbonate. Fermented and aged primarily in concrete vessels, the wine avoids heavy oak influence, allowing the natural herbal, citrus peel, and wet-stone characteristics of the high-altitude terroir to shine alongside a beautiful, waxen mouthfeel.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1963 by Alberto Zuccardi in Mendoza, Argentina, Familia Zuccardi has evolved into one of the country's most visionary and prestigious family-owned wine dynasties. Under the leadership of José Alberto Zuccardi and third-generation winemaker Sebastián Zuccardi, the estate has shifted its focus towards high-altitude viticulture in the Uco Valley, pioneering deep geological research and unadorned concrete-vessel fermentations to express genuine site specificity. Operating state-of-the-art facilities like the acclaimed Piedra Infinita winery in Paraje Altamira, Zuccardi produces benchmark, mineral-driven Malbecs such as Finca Piedra Infinita alongside benchmark expressions of Bonarda and Cabernet Sauvignon across red, white, sparkling, and fortified categories.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Semillon