FAMILIA ZUCCARDI
MENDOZA, ARGENTINA 2021
WHY BUY: This is about as perfect an offer as it gets, folks. From Zuccardi's stupefyingly great 2021 vintage, we’ve secured allocations of their 100-point single-vineyard Finca Piedra Infinita Gravascal ($300), two 99-pointers — their single-vineyard Finca Piedra Supercal ($300) and their Finca Piedra Infinita ($160) — and a 98+-point single-vineyard Finca Las Cerrilladas for only $115. And just to note: the last time we featured Zuccardi in this email, the entire order of Finca Piedra Infinita sold out in a matter of hours. We have every expectation today’s offer will go just as fast, so act quickly to lock in your order and count the days until these collector’s item wines — with their unerring exactitude, their high-altitude terroir character, their consummate balance and suppleness, and their breathtaking length — are in your hands.
THE PEDIGREE: It came as no surprise to us, or to any serious collector, when Wine Enthusiast named Zuccardi the New World Winery of the Year, and The World's Best Vineyards selected them Best Vineyard in the World three years running. Or when they became the only winery in Argentina with three wines awarded 100 points by Robert Parker, putting the Paraje Altamira region on the map as one of the world's most exceptional terroirs.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: The Wine Advocate weighed in on all four, and reveled in the experience. It was practically breathless about the 100-point Gravascal, praising its “wildly herbal, floral, nimble and endlessly complex nose” and palate that “combines a weightless buoyancy and deft concentration with a pronounced yet restrained mineral-laden core, culminating in a slow-moving, balanced and symmetrical finish with dramatic length.” It lavished 99 points upon the Supercal, praising its “racy, sleek and lifted texture,” which offers "the most bracing and linear focus of the Zuccardi lineup without sacrificing three-dimensionality.” It also awarded 99 points to the Finca Piedra Infinita, "a simply magnificent example of contemporary Argentine Malbec” with “remarkable richness and discernible finesse.” A half-notch behind it, the 98+-point Las Cerrilladas impressed with its “sleek, racy, tensile" palate that transitions “seamlessly to a spectacular, complex and multidimensional finish.”
OUR TASTING NOTES: The 100-point Gravascal emerges from a tiny 0.73-hectare parcel dominated by gravel and granite, and you can taste that geological precision in every sip; truly, there's something almost mystical about how whole-cluster fermentation in concrete creates such intensity and concentration, but without any trace of heaviness, or any note of over-extraction. The Supercal tells a different mineral story. It's sourced from alluvial stones covered in calcium carbonate that translate to what critics call "searingly stony" character with "snappy attack.” This is a wine that will alter any preconceptions you have about Malbec. Focused, clear, pure, and dimensional, it’s an utterly modern expression of the varietal, and lingers for hours afterward in the mind. The flagship Finca Piedra Infinita balances a deep and seductive richness with a remarkable sense of elegance and poise, while the Las Cerrilladas (this is, mind you, only the third iteration of this wine) showcases what happens when alluvial soils meet 40% whole clusters and concrete fermentation.
THE STORY: Zuccardi earned a perfect 100 from Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate for their 2016 Finca Piedra Infinita, but since then the estate has pulled off what might be an even harder feat, namely, flirting with that same near-impossible level of impeccability year after year. That awareness, that nimbleness, that alertness to the particularities and subtleties of terroir: this is what makes the wines of Sebastián Zuccardi so distinctive, and so special. And what undoubtedly moved Wine Enthusiast to name Zuccardi Valle de Uco the New World Winery of the Year. Finca Piedra, which sits almost perilously high in the hills of Mendoza, is the most desirable of all of Zuccardi's lands, a single-vineyard site with eight different plots, each revealing grapes of a slightly different character. To accentuate what that terroir produces, he employs whole-cluster fermentation that varies by vineyard site, with concrete vessels crafted from stones excavated while planting their Uco Valley vineyards. When it comes time for blending, he uses grapes from as many as 40 different micro-plots within the vineyard, a painstaking and intricate process, but one whose results can hardly be denied.
FUN FACT: Most people in North America might not know it, but wine production in South America is not a late-20th century phenomenon. It dates all the way to the 1500s, a legacy of the Spanish conquistadores, missionaries, and Jesuits in Argentina and Chile, who decided it was too prohibitively expensive to ship wine from home and began to plant their own vineyards.
OUR GUARANTEE: As always, we only buy and source directly from the estate to ensure pristine provenance. These extraordinary wines are certain to sell out fast, so secure your bottles and cases today!
*Offer NOT valid in-store. This offer is made pre-arrival, with wines estimated to be delivered to your preferred store in Winter 2025 (Dec. 21st - March 20th, 2026). With the supply chain issues that we are seeing globally, there may be some unforeseen delays which could affect the ETA. All sale prices are the lowest available at Total Wine & More and ONLY valid through Concierge Sales. No further discounts or coupons may be applied. Offer not valid in CT, KS, MI, NE, NY, OK, or TN. This offer will expire on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025.