Zuccardi 2020 Q Tempranillo 750ml

The Q line matters to this family: launched with the 1997 vintage, it was the first wine to carry the Zuccardi name, and the first premium Argentine Tempranillo. The fruit comes off old vines, up to forty years, on the Santa Rosa estate east of Mendoza at 620 metres. Hand-destemmed, gently crushed, fermented with daily pigeage and délestage, long post-ferment maceration, malolactic in barrel, then a year in French and American medium-toast oak. Intense ruby. Fig, cherry and plum over tobacco, leather, cedar and chocolate. Soft entry, firm tannins, persistent.

Pairing: grilled beef, lamb, chorizo, Manchego.