2018 Finca Piedra Infinita
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Zuccardi’s 2018 Finca Piedra Infinita is Malbec – but not as you know it. Forget bold and boisterous styles, this offers pretty aromas of crushed chalk, incense, violets and pepper over a bed of pure and glossy purple fruit. On the palate, that chalky minerality dominates, giving the impression of glorious freshness and finesse (only further emphasised by the use of concrete for both fermentation and maturation). There’s plenty of acidity and ripe fruit to back this up though – with seamless, fine-grained tannins and a long, nuanced and crunchy-fruit-filled finish. A gorgeous wine that champions the purity of Altamira fruit.
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James Suckling
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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Aromas of crushed fruit with mushrooms, dried flowers, ash, charcoal, iodine and bark, following through to a full-bodied palate with superb depth of fruit and layers of polished, fine tannins. Extremely long and seamless. A beauty by all accounts. Complex. Juicy. Supple. Better after 2023, when it will give you all it has stored up in goodness, character and uniqueness.
There is a reductive character in the 2018 Finca Piedra Infinita that I also found in the Finca Piedra Infinita Gravascal. There is also a big connection with the 2016, more than with the 2017. There is tension and crunchiness here, and the finish is very mineral, dry and chalky but coupled with deep flavors. The wine feels very young and with huge potential to develop in bottle. The symmetry of the cooler vintages in this bottling is here: there's precision, detail and nuance. There's purity and restraint and great harmony. There is energy and light, power and balance. This is as good as it gets. 5,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2019.
About the producer
Based in the Uco Valley, Zuccardi is one of Argentina’s leading producers. Family owned and run – today by third-generation Sebastián Zuccardi – the property crafts pure-fruited wines that speak of their mountainous Mendoza terroir.