Zuccardi Finca Piedra Infinita Supercal 2016

Parker: The depth of the soils is very variable in their vineyards in Altamira, and they have classified the soils in three types and identified a couple of plots in each of their categories of limestone-rich and shallow soils, what they call "supercalcáreo" (super limestone) and "gravas calcáreas" (limestone gravels). The 2016 Supercal comes from a half hectare of very shallow soils where the rocks that are covered by limestone are very close to the surface; it's a kind of soil that works wonders in cold years, none like 2016, a kind of soil that can get too stressed in warmer and drier years, where they harvest date is key and is usually earlier. The wine fermented in concrete eggs, and some 30% of the wine was put in used barriques; so, a similar vinification to the Piedra Infinita and Canal Uco bottlings. This is more austere than the Piedra Infinita but perhaps not as complete or complex. There is some austerity that makes this somewhat wild, in the direction of a wine from Gualtallary. 1,800 bottles were filled in February 2017.