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Alta Yarí

Gran Calcáreo Malbec

A red wine from Gualtallary, Argentina. Full-bodied. Made only from Malbec.

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The house says

This is the top Malbec of Alta Yarí, Hervé Joyaux Fabre's winery in Gualtallary, in the Uco Valley: the name comes from the limestone in the soil, stony and rich in calcium carbonate, at 1,350 metres and above. 2023 vintage, 100% Malbec, 14.5% alcohol, grapes hand-picked and sorted twice, fermented in small concrete eggs with 30 days of maceration, and 12 months of ageing half in French oak barrels, half in concrete eggs. The importer mentions violet, strawberry, cherry and plum with spice and wet stone, full-bodied, chalky tannins and fresh acidity, and suggests grilled meat (bife de chorizo, flank steak, picanha) and roast kid goat, at 18 °C, after an hour in the decanter. The Descorchados guide 2025 gave it 99 points and named the house Argentina's winery of the year. It is not in the X-Wines base, so it has no rating from drinkers yet. Had it? Toast and tell us.

Basic details checked by the house in Oct 2026; acidity will be added once the house checks the label.

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The wine, no fuss

Type
Red
Country
Argentina
Region
Gualtallary
Grape
Malbec
Vintage
2023
Body
full-bodied
Alcohol
14.5%
Price
above R$ 300range checked in Oct 2026

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Red meat, barbecue and lamb.

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A label outside X-Wines, an open scientific dataset (de Azambuja, R. X. et al., 2023): basic details gathered and checked by the house, in the month shown under “The house says”; no rating, because ratings aren't made up. The price range is the one the house saw at big stores in Brazil, in the month shown: the price changes, the range tends to stay. Shipping isn't included. The house doesn't sell wine.