Zuccardi, Finca Canal Uco Malbec 2022
Mendoza
Argentina, Argentina
Regular price£390.00
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Arriving: Late 2025
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 14.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2022 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2036 |
| Grapes: 100% Malbec | |
Critic scores
96 RP, 98 VM, 97 JS, 96 JD, 96 JA, 99 DC, 96 DB
Critic reviews
"The 2022 Finca Canal Uco opens with a deep, lush bouquet of black and blue fruits, purple flowers and crushed stones that gradually develops a high-toned, herbal energy with time in the glass. It is graceful and lively on the palate, balancing dense, refined concentration with remarkable levity, seamlessly moving into a complex, mineral-driven finish anchored by a contained core of opaque fruits and a distinctly floral character. This is a decidedly bold expression of Altamira that admirably maintains the region's signature poise and finesse, offering a more intense, darker counterpoint to the textural lift of the Piedra Infinita bottlings. As always with Zuccardi's Malbec bottlings, it fermented in concrete vessels of various sizes with a high proportion of whole clusters."
Matthew Luczy, August 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Malbec Finca Canal Uco was madewith 90% whole bunches. It opens withlavender, violet, field herbs, sage, Morellocherry and blackberry notes. This is highlyexpressive and elegant. The palate is compact,rich and chalky, with length and definition. The2022 is a great wine from an excellent vintage."
Joaquin Hidalgo, August 2025, Vinous.com
"A wine that I often open for friends at home, dependable, enjoyable and surprising - bringing to the forefront the floral, lightly spiced and delicate side of Malbec that can often get forgotten in the usual heavily-oaked versions. This is dominated by blackberry and red cherry fruits, nutmeg, sage, white pepper, cocoa beans and violets. Sebastien Zuccardi winemaker, concrete vats for fermentation and ageing, natural yeasts, 57ha vineyard set at 1,100m in altitude on granite and limestone soils."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"I couldn't help falling in love with this wine which really shows not only the winemaking talents of Sebastian Zuccardi but also the brilliance of high-altitude Malbec. Pink flowers, milk chocolate and cherry fruit - so open and expressive, but clean and lifted. Crystalline and pure, there’s delicacy on offer here despite such detail and depth. Supple but so polished and delineated with red, blue and black fruit, cocoa powder, iris, slate and iron with a touch of spice liquorice and smokey tobacco on the finish. Juicy, sleek and utterly moreish - a wine you'll want to drink again and again and again. A wine that conveys emotion. 3.6pH."
Georgina Hindle, August 2025, Decanter.com
"Beeswax. Candlewax. Dark and quite intense berry fruits, with a little damson and damson stone. Maybe a hint of walnut. Cassis. This is beguilingly composed the mouth with a very shapely spherical core outlined by the ultra-soft and fine-grained tannins. Plunge-pool purity. Almost Pichon Comtesse-like in texture, but with Argentinian spice and florality. Truly excellent."
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com
Matthew Luczy, August 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Malbec Finca Canal Uco was madewith 90% whole bunches. It opens withlavender, violet, field herbs, sage, Morellocherry and blackberry notes. This is highlyexpressive and elegant. The palate is compact,rich and chalky, with length and definition. The2022 is a great wine from an excellent vintage."
Joaquin Hidalgo, August 2025, Vinous.com
"A wine that I often open for friends at home, dependable, enjoyable and surprising - bringing to the forefront the floral, lightly spiced and delicate side of Malbec that can often get forgotten in the usual heavily-oaked versions. This is dominated by blackberry and red cherry fruits, nutmeg, sage, white pepper, cocoa beans and violets. Sebastien Zuccardi winemaker, concrete vats for fermentation and ageing, natural yeasts, 57ha vineyard set at 1,100m in altitude on granite and limestone soils."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"I couldn't help falling in love with this wine which really shows not only the winemaking talents of Sebastian Zuccardi but also the brilliance of high-altitude Malbec. Pink flowers, milk chocolate and cherry fruit - so open and expressive, but clean and lifted. Crystalline and pure, there’s delicacy on offer here despite such detail and depth. Supple but so polished and delineated with red, blue and black fruit, cocoa powder, iris, slate and iron with a touch of spice liquorice and smokey tobacco on the finish. Juicy, sleek and utterly moreish - a wine you'll want to drink again and again and again. A wine that conveys emotion. 3.6pH."
Georgina Hindle, August 2025, Decanter.com
"Beeswax. Candlewax. Dark and quite intense berry fruits, with a little damson and damson stone. Maybe a hint of walnut. Cassis. This is beguilingly composed the mouth with a very shapely spherical core outlined by the ultra-soft and fine-grained tannins. Plunge-pool purity. Almost Pichon Comtesse-like in texture, but with Argentinian spice and florality. Truly excellent."
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com