2022 Matías Riccitelli ‘Viejos Viñedos’ Malbec, Lujan de Cuyo, Argentina Les Vignes de Paradis barrels or large wooden vats

barrels or large wooden vats (foudres)

close to the forest’s edge

Will has learned how to express each vineyard honestly

Planted in 1938

herbal or floral

2022 Matías Riccitelli ‘Viejos Viñedos’ Malbec, Lujan de Cuyo, Argentina Les Vignes de Paradis barrels or large wooden vatsA powerful, high thread count Malbec from centenarian vines. The Malbec in our club wines is a lithe, perception bending take on the grape. But, Matas is also exceptional at making refined versions of the more classic, full bodied Argentinian Malbec. This cuve is from centenarian+ vines (the oldest were planted in 1908), grown at a soaring 1100 meters. Destemmed and fermented with a long, gently extraction in small concrete vats; and aged in French