Altos las Hormigas, Malbec 'Reserve', 2022 Potensac Offer emerging with the focus and

emerging with the focus and complexity that only true limestone terroir and careful winemaking can produce

high-altitude site (350-450m) with stony

A piece of Giacosa history from the era when the producer-selector role still defined his house

fermenting with 30% whole clusters in neutral barrels for 9 months

These ancient vines

Altos las Hormigas, Malbec 'Reserve', 2022 Potensac Offer emerging with the focus andThe wine that put Altos las Hormigas's terroir philosophy in a bottle you can drink any night. The Reserve blends roughly 80% high altitude Gualtallary with 20% Paraje Altamira fruit, both from calcareous, limestone laced Uco Valley soils. Tellingly, the estate ditched small oak barrels back in 2012 in favor of huge untoasted foudres, here about 75% of the wine ages 18 months in 3,500 liter foudres, the rest in bare concrete, then another year in