Soleria
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, almond biscotti, peach tart
✨ Technical Specifications
Zuccardi's Soleria is a rare and captivating departure from traditional Argentine winemaking, representing a unique fortified Torront s produced using a classic solera system. Initiated in 2002 by Jos Alberto Zuccardi, this ambitious project showcases Argentina's signature white grape, Torront s Riojano, in an entirely oxidative, fortified style. The grapes are harvested late in the season to maximize natural sugar concentration, partially fermented, and then fortified with grape spirit to arrest fermentation and preserve the grape's natural sweetness. The wine is then introduced into a fractional blending solera system of oak casks. Over years of patient aging, the wine develops a deep amber hue and a mesmerizingly complex profile of dried apricots, orange marmalade, toasted nuts, and honey, all while retaining the delicate, exotic floral lift characteristic of the Torront s grape.
🍾 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
Torront s