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
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
Torront s