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.

The 2022 Malbec Finca Canal Uco was made with 90% whole bunches. It opens with lavender, violet, field herbs, sage, Morello cherry and blackberry notes. This is highly expressive and elegant. The palate is compact, rich and chalky, with length and definition. The 2022 is a great wine from an excellent vintage. - Joaquín Hidalgo

This terroir-driven Malbec reflects the vision of Sebastian Zuccardi and his team. From the first sip, it showcases an expressive, elegant character, offering aromas of fresh blackberries and crushed violets. The palate exhibits poise and tension, along with a delicate blend of well-defined floral notes, dark fruits, and subtle saline hints. All of these elements highlight the uniqueness of Paraje Altamira and make this particular vineyard, Finca Canal Uco, stand out. — Jesica Vargas

This is ferric, with notes of dried herbs and subtle dark fruit. The palate is medium- to full-bodied, precise and focused, with tight fruit and well-delineated tannins. A savory touch follows through to the saline, persistent finish. Drink now or hold.

Canal Uco reaches 3,609-feet elevation and was the first vineyard planted by the Zuccardis in Valle De Uco's Paraje Altamira. The fourth vintage released to La Place de Bordeaux, the 2022 Malbec Finca Canal Uco is a 100% varietal wine. Full-bodied, it was fermented in concrete and aged again in concrete vessels, seeing no oak. The soils of the site are alluvial with gravel and calcareous littered throughout, adding noticeable minerality and energy to the wine, which is richly layered in dense, intense red fruit, earthy graphite, and undeniable texture. It's drinking well now in all its still developing glory, but will benefit from further aging of 15-20 years, with an ideal drinking window of 2032-2040.

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

Opening notes of violet, mountain herbs and petrichor give way to a tensile core, with layers of floral raspberry and Rainier cherry that build richness while simultaneously contrasted by a wave of minerally acidity, but this never loses focus or its core flavors. Finishes with length around structured tannins. Malbec. Drink now through 2038. 500 cases made, 450 cases imported.