Familia Zuccardi Finca Piedra Infinita 2018

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Familia Zuccardi
Finca Piedra Infinita 2018

Vintage : 2018
Country : Argentina
Region : Mendoza
Subregion
Type : Red
Style Deep Full Bodied
Format : 75cl
Alcohol : 14°
Grappes : 100% Malbec

Quite simply this is one of the most outstanding Malbecs Argentina has ever produced. Nuanced red fruits, mineral notes of wet stone and graphite and a very long finish. An ageworthy wine.

Experts		Score	Vintage
RP	Robert Parker	99	2018
JS	James Suckling	99	2018
VN	Vinous (Antonio Galloni)	96	2017

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The name of this Malbec not only honours the ‘infinite’ quantity of stones present in the vineyard and the number of stones which had to be removed for the winery to be built, but is also a tribute to the famous poem ‘Piedra Infinita’ written by Enrique Ramponi who was born in Mendoza.

Fermented in concrete, 30% of the wine was aged in 500 litre oak barrels and the rest in concrete at the beautiful Zuccardi winery.

Robert Parker (RP) : 99 Points (2018)

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.

James Suckling (JS) : 99 Points (2018)

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.

Vinous (Antonio Galloni) (VN) : 96 Points (2017)

A Malbec from Paraje Altamira, the grapes selected from vines growing in eight different types of soil at the Finca Piedra Infinita vineyard before half of them were aged in used barrels for 12 months. The measured nose offers an herb, violet and lavender core from which blackberry subsequently emerges. Makes a big entrance with energy and juice before ceding the impetus to a chalkiness that turns the spotlight on the texture sustained by a flavor-enhancing salinity. A long-lasting, profoundly layered wine.

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