Los Caracoles Malbec 2023

Where: Mendoza, Argentina
Grapes: Malbec
Body: Medium/full
Category: Red Wine

Los Caracoles is certified organic and practicing biodynamic and aged in concrete tanks. It's a Malbec that's light on it's feet with the classic blackberry fruit you expect from the grape.

organic + practicing biodynamic //native yeasts // minimal intervention

2023  //  750ml 

Named after the “caracoles” - steep switchback roads of Argentinian Andes which resemble snails - Los Caracoles is a collaboration with one of Mendoza’s best growers. The vineyards, planted 30 years ago in the early 1990s, are planted in a subregion of Uco Valley called Los Chacayes. Here, in the foothills of the Andes Cordillera, at an altitude of 1,100 m, the semi–desert conditions create ideal growing conditions for Malbec. Glacially-fed rivers flowing down from the Andes have formed alluvial soils of volcanic and granitic gravel, adding the rigors of poor, well–drained soil.

They’ve shifted to zero tilling to preserve the networks of mycorrhizae in the soil. In 2023 alone they planted over 800 trees in their estate. This is a mix of individual trees within vineyards all the way up to small “forests” planted in the vineyards. Their hope is by creating a more diverse and resilient ecosystem that their vines will better adapt to warmer, drier years to come.