Vina Alicia
Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza Argentina
The Arizu family are pioneers in Mendoza and the sub region of Lujan de Cuyo. They have produced wines under the Luigi Bosca label for more than a century. In the late 80’s with iconic heritage vineyards, the oldest in the region, they saw the opportunity to create an ultra premium boutique label with limited production from only the best fruit from their two iconic Mendoza vineyards.
The San Alberto and Viña Alicia vineyards are both located in Luján de Cuyo. The location, soil type and climate place these lands “among the most coveted in the world”. A true continental climate; dry, with an immense day/night (diurnal) temperature difference and the scarce rainfalls (180 mm, annual average) add up to the ideal conditions for
vine growing.
The soils are loamy/silty alluvial gravels and water for irrigation comes exclusively from the snow melt in the high mountains of Los Andes mountain range via a unique channel irrigation system.
The Arizu family were instrumental in the recognition of Lujan de Cuyo as Argentina’s first Controlled Denomination of Origin in 1989.
www.vinaalicia.com
Accuro
Uco Valley, Mendoza Argentina
Accuro produce ultra premium Malbec, Malbec Cabernet blends and Torrontes from fruit sourced from their high altitude vineyards in the Uco Valley, Mendoza and Cafayate Valley, Salta.
The wine business is collaboration between Carlos Pulenta, his son in-law Fernando Podesta and senior winemaker at Vistalba, Alejandros Canovas.
These are unique wines, the combination of extreme altitude of the sites - 1200m and 1750m respectively for Uco and Cafayate valleys - a soil profile of low fertility glacial and alluvial wash from the Andean Cordillera, scarce rainfall, but well timed spring melt and enormous diurnal temperature difference ensure low yielding fruit of intense flavour, character and physiological ripeness.
The resulting wines exhibit fantastic balance and the reds display a depth and intensity of colour that can only be attributed to their unique Andean derived terroir. The entire end of the Vistalba underground barrel room is glazed exposing the immense paleo- alluvial profile. River rounded gravel, cobbles and boulders in a matrix of loamy sand extend from the surface to six metres depth and beyond. The vine roots push to amazing depths in these gravels chasing the melt waters as they recede into the profile after each thaw. The result; plenty of soil moisture at fruit set then a gradual struggle for these vines through to harvest ensuring intense flavours and low yields.
www.accurowines.com.ar
Vina Qaramy
Tunuyan (Uco Valley), Mendoza Argentina
Qaramy is a small premium winery and vineyards owned by Leonardo Bromberg and family. Under the guidance of winemaker, Karim Mussi Saffie, they produce Malbec and blends from their 2 vineyards; Pachahuasi and Qailapuyu in Los Arboles/Tunuyan, Upper Uco Valley.
Situated at the base of the magnificent Tupungato (6,800m) on a colluvial fan, the exceptional soil profile of alluvial gravels suspended in sand/loam matrix with a relatively high proportion of silt combines with elevation, high sunshine hours and extremely low rainfall and results in wines of great power and fruit intensity whilst retaining sensational freshness.