Zuccardi Conceto Malbec

Some years before 1950, engineer Alberto ‘Tito’ Zuccardi arrived in Mendoza from Tucumán, the small province in northwest Argentina where his Italian grandparents had settled many years before. He began experimenting with new irrigation systems because, back then as is the case today, water management is key due to its scarcity. In 1963 he planted a vineyard in the Maipú region, aiming to show other neighbouring farmers how his irrigation system worked, not realising at the time that this would be the beginning of his life’s passion.

With Concrete, Zuccardi seek to “undress” the wine, enhance its expression of the place and reveal the texture imparted by the calcareous soils of the Uco Valley. They  select only the most stony and calcareous plots of the vineyard and vinify with the whole bunch, as was done in the past.

Fermentation and storage are done completely in concrete vessels without epoxy, to avoid the influence of aromas and flavours which do not come from the vineyard, and to amplify the texture that conveys the energy of the Uco Valley.

Full of cool fruit and slate character with dried herb undertones.