2024 Matías Riccitelli ‘Kung Fu’ Sauvignon Blanc, Mendoza, Argentina

2024 Matías Riccitelli ‘Kung Fu’ Sauvignon Blanc, Mendoza, Argentina

$27.00

For Matías, this is one of the most important vineyards in Mendoza’s Uco Valley. Here, Sauvignon Blanc is rooted in white, calcareous soils – “aromatic earth” as he calls it – infusing the wine with soft, chalky minerality. It also defends the grape against its tendency to become a caricature of itself: the grape’s signature (and often, sharp) green flavors come in the form of delicate baby parsley and fresh cut flowers; its punchy grapefruit citrus is traded for soft preserved lemon. All wrapped in elegant, phenolic texture from 8 months of skin contact in amphora. One of the most zen expressions of the grape, from anywhere. 

  • '100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Vineyard located in Gualtallary, Uco Valley, 1,400 meters above sea level
  • Hand harvested and the grapes are transferred to small clay amphorae by gravity
  • Fermented with indigenous yeasts between 16º-18ºC, 50% whole cluster
  • Aged for 8 months in clay amphorae
  • Bottled unfiltered, unfined and without added sulphites
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