Un Lugar en los Andes Pinot Noir
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted duck, creamy mushroom risotto, seared salmon
✨ Technical Specifications
Familia Zuccardi's exploration of high-altitude terroirs in the Uco Valley led to the creation of their Pinot Noir expressions, capturing the essence of 'a place in the Andes' (Un Lugar en los Andes). Grown in extreme, cool-climate micro-regions like San Pablo and Tupungato at elevations exceeding 1,300 meters, these vineyards benefit from intense alpine sunlight and dramatic diurnal temperature shifts. The soils here are alluvial and heavily marked by calcium carbonate deposits. To honor this unique terroir, the winemaking philosophy focuses on minimal intervention: utilizing concrete vessels for fermentation and aging to preserve the grape's delicate floral aromas, bright red cherry fruit, and distinct chalky minerality, completely eschewing heavy oak influence.
🍾 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
Pinot Noir