Serie A Torrontes
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai curry, traditional Argentine empanadas, fresh ceviche
✨ Technical Specifications
Familia Zuccardi's 'Serie A' stands for 'Serie Argentina', a portfolio designed to showcase the country's diverse microclimates and soil profiles through its signature grape varieties. For their Torrontés, Zuccardi ventures far north of their Mendoza home to the high-altitude, sun-drenched valleys of Salta, particularly Cafayate. Sitting at elevations often exceeding 1,700 meters, these vineyards experience extreme diurnal temperature shifts and intense solar radiation. This unique terroir is essential for Torrontés—an indigenous Argentine grape born from a historical crossing of Criolla Chica and Muscat of Alexandria. To preserve the grape's highly expressive, delicate aromatic profile of white flowers, citrus peel, and fresh peach, Zuccardi ferments the juice entirely in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, avoiding any oak contact to deliver a pure, vibrant, and mineral-driven expression of the Salta Andes.
🍾 About the Producer
Familia Zuccardi was founded in 1963 by engineer Alberto 'Tito' Zuccardi, who planted experimental vines in Mendoza to demonstrate an innovative irrigation system. Under the stewardship of his son José Alberto and grandson Sebastián Zuccardi, the estate transformed into a vanguard of modern Argentine viticulture, shifting the focus decisively toward the high-altitude, cool-climate micro-terroirs of the Uco Valley. At elevations ranging from 1,000 to over 1,400 meters—most notably in Paraje Altamira, San Pablo, and Gualtallary—the estate farms on alluvial soils richly encrusted with calcium carbonate and marine limestone deposits. Farming avoids synthetic agrochemicals and embraces organic practices. Vinification prioritizes transparency and place, favoring spontaneous native-yeast fermentations in unlined concrete amphorae and minimal oak intervention. Renowned for parcel-specific Malbecs like Finca Piedra Infinita alongside taut, mineral white expressions such as Botanico Chardonnay and Polígonos Semillón, Zuccardi crafts wines marked by chiseled acidity, chalky tannins, and pristine Andean tension.
🍇 Grapes
Torrontés
🍷 ABV
13-13.5%