22 products
22 products
Argentina - Mendoza
| Type | Bodega Marco Zunino (Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Bodega Marco Zunino Estancia Argentina Malbec 2019 | 12 x 750ml | $20.95 |
| Type | Matías Riccitelli (Sustainable, Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Matías Riccitelli Hey Malbec! 2020 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $20.95 |
Austria - Burgenland
| Type | Markus Altenburger (Biodynamic, Natural, Organic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Markus Altenburger Blaufränkisch Vom Kalk 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $28.95 |
| White | Markus Altenburger Chardonnay Vom Kalk 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $28.95 |
Austria - Kamptal
| Type | Matthias Hager (Biodynamic, Natural, Organic, Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | Matthias Hager Grüner Veltliner Mollands 2022 | 12 x 750ml | $27.95 |
| White | Matthias Hager Riesling Alte Reben Steinleiten 2018 | 6 x 750ml | $46.95 |
Chile - Secano Interior - Portezuelo
| Type | Garage Wine Co. (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Garage Co Renacido Vineyard Maule Valley Lot 114 2020 LCBO Vintages | 6 x 750ml | $51.00 |
Chile - Valle del Maule
| Type | Garage Wine Co. (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Garage Wine Co Revival 2021 | 12 x 750ml |
Greece - Santorini
| Type | Vassaltis (Volcanic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | Vassaltis Assyrtiko Barrel Aged Santorini PDO 2021 LCBO Classics | 6 x 750ml | $88.00 |
| White | Vassaltis Santorini Assyrtiko 2022 LCBO Retail | 6 x 750ml | $72.95 |
Hungary - Lake Balaton
| Type | Gilvesy Pincészet (Organic, Sustainable, Vegan-Friendly, Volcanic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | Gilvesy Bohem Balatoni Cuvée 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $21.95 |
| White | Gilvesy Sauvignon Blanc 2021 | 6 x 750ml | $26.95 |
New Zealand - Central Otago
| Type | Blank Canvas (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Blank Canvas Anthem Pinot Noir Gibbston Valley 2018 LCBO Cellar Collection | 6 x 750ml | $68.00 |
New Zealand - Marlborough
| Type | Blank Canvas (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Blank Canvas Escaroth Pinot Noir Marlborough 2019 | 6 x 750ml | $58.00 |
| White | Blank Canvas Sauvignon Blanc Abstract Marlborough 2019 | 6 x 750ml | $47.00 |
| Red | Blank Canvas Settlement Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019 | 6 x 750ml | $58.00 |
| Type | Hans Herzog | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | Hans Herzog Sauvignon Blanc Sur Lie Marlborough 2019 LCBO Classics | 12 x 750ml | $57.00 |
| Type | Invivo | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | Graham Norton's Own Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2022 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $24.95 |
New Zealand - Wairarapa
| Type | Paddy Borthwick | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Paddy Borthwick Left Hand Pinot Noir Wairarapa 2019 LCBO Classics | 6 x 750ml | $48.00 |
Portugal - Alentejo
| Type | Paulo Laureano | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | Paulo Laureano Vinhas Velhas Branco 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $22.95 |
| Red | Paulo Laureano Vinhas Velhas Tinto 2020 | 12 x 750ml | $23.95 |
Slovenia - Goriška Brda
| Type | Štekar (Biodynamic, Natural, Organic, Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange | Štekar Rebula 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $29.95 |
- Red Wine
- Malbec
- Vegan-Friendly
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Bodega Marco Zunino
The dream of 4 French partners in Argentina's Mendoza region can be found 200 kilometers from the district capital, in the South of the region, in the town of San Rafael. It's an oasis surrounded by large canyons and crossed by two rivers, Diamante and Atuel, vital for agriculture and tourism in the region.The arid climate, rugged landscape coupled with the plane trees located along the country roads and weeping willows bordering its rivers that makes the area reminiscent of the midi region in the South of France.
The thirty-hectare vineyard boasts an exceptional site and an idyllic regional climate for wine producing. The low rainfall, vineyard altitude (670m) and high temperature variations are key to the diversity and quality of San Rafael’s terroir and offers the ideal setting for a truly exceptional quality of grape.
Press Reviews
Wine Align
90 points - Sara d'Amato
A bright and cheery malbec made with finesse. The palate is cut and refreshed with a salty component, zesty acidity and mildly sinewy tannins. Sleek with notes of earth, new leather and blackberry. Impressively complex with a memorable finish. Drink now or hold until 2023. Tasted July 2020.
90 points - David Lawrason
This is a very generous, open knit, dense and just slightly sweet malbec with classic aromas of mulberry/raspberry, thyme, a touch of meatiness and oak vanillin. It is very smooth, almost slippery and dense with fine tannin and warm. The length is very good to excellent. Lots here for $20. Tasted June 2021
- Red Wine
- Blaufränkisch
- Biodynamic, Natural, Organic
- Dry
- Light Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Markus Altenburger
The Altenburger family has farmed land in and around Jois since the 16th century. Their vineyards are only half an hour from Vienna, but seemingly in another cosmos altogether.
Markus is fascinated by Blaufränkisch – the red grape of Burgenland. He works with massal selections from his Gritschenberg vineyard's old vines. There, loose clusters and small berries are well adapted to the dry Pannonian summers. The grapes express the schist for fruiter wines charming in their youth, as well as the limestone, for length and structure. The wines express this tension, the influences of limestone and schist soils, and something of the wild abundance of nature, as well.
Since Markus took over his family’s estate more than a decade ago, he’s moved from what he calls “well-behaved wines” to those that are much closer to nature and bear a far more personal stamp. In the cellar, he favours native yeasts, minimal added sulphur, long, protective lees contact, and concrete and neutral wood for ageing.
Press Reviews
Wine Align
92 points - Sarah d'Amato
An aromatically engaging blaufränkish brimming with botanicals, mineral and ripe red fruit. Pepper, graphite and refreshing acidity liven the palate. Elegant but spirited with great depth of flavour and an appealing crunchiness. Youthful yet ready to drink with a memorably salty finish. Best now to 2026. Tasted August 2023.
91 points - Michael Godel
Biodynamically farmed blaufränkisch and from the Altenburger who have been present in this land so near to Vienna since the 16th century. The soils are calcareous loam and the wine may be natural though it is anything but sweetly, peaty or sweaty funky. The vintage has surely determined great ripeness and the sour-edgy acidity is in total command. This may just be a quintessential Austrian food wine with a cool Leithaberg breeze that looks for warm broth, soft dumplings and preferably braised meat. Will age for a few years without turning. Drink 2023-2026. Tasted August 2023.
91 points - David Lawrason
This is a fairly deeply coloured and ripe blaufrankisch that shows a rich nose of raspberry/plum with well integrated violet and spice. Very appealing aromas if not intense. It is medium weight with lively, almost juicy acidity, some alcohol warmth (12.5%) and fine but gritty tannin. The length is excellent. I would age it a couple of years although I like its exuberance now as well. Tasted Sept 2023
- Red Wine
- Alicante Bouschet, Aragonez, Trincadeira
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Paulo Laureano
Paulo Laureano is one of the most respected Portuguese winemakers and a reference for wines in the Alentejo.
Agronomist, winemaker trained between Portugal, Australia and Spain, after teaching at the University of Évora for 10 years, decided to dedicate himself, exclusively, to what has moved him since 1993: designing wines. Especially in the company he created with his family in 1999 and which has become increasingly important in his life.
Paulo Laureano defines himself as a minimalist winemaker, for whom designing wines is a passion, unveiling their aromas and flavors, evaluating and optimizing the reasons for his identity and personality, promoting them as true sources of pleasure.
His exclusive bet on Portuguese varieties reflects his way of being and looking at wine as a factor of culture and civilization.
Press Reviews
Wine Align
90 points - David Lawrason
This is a blend of three varieties from the sunny south of Portugal. It shows a generous, rounded nose of brambly/blackberry jam, perfumed florality, some oak vanilla and nutmeg. It is medium-full bodied, soft, genteel and warming with fine chalk tannin. Some minerality on the finish. The length is very good to excellent. Tasted March 2022
- White Wine
- Antão Vaz, Arinto, Fernão Pires
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
About the Winery
Paulo Laureano
Paulo Laureano is one of the most respected Portuguese winemakers and a reference for wines in the Alentejo.
Agronomist, winemaker trained between Portugal, Australia and Spain, after teaching at the University of Évora for 10 years, decided to dedicate himself, exclusively, to what has moved him since 1993: designing wines. Especially in the company he created with his family in 1999 and which has become increasingly important in his life.
Paulo Laureano defines himself as a minimalist winemaker, for whom designing wines is a passion, unveiling their aromas and flavors, evaluating and optimizing the reasons for his identity and personality, promoting them as true sources of pleasure.
His exclusive bet on Portuguese varieties reflects his way of being and looking at wine as a factor of culture and civilization.
Press Reviews
Wine Align
91 points - David Lawrason
2020 vintage: This buxom white blends three local white varieties including antao vaz, arinto and fernao pires. It has quite deep colour and a very ripe and rich feel. I kept expecting a wave of oak but it is so very subtle, with only the antao being fermented in barrel. It has ripe peach, melon and slightly herbal and ginger nuances. It is full bodied, quite creamy yet fresh at the same time. The length is excellent. The alcohol is on slow burn but only at 12.5%. This is very characterful and excellent value. Tasted April 2022
- País
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13% alc./vol
About the Winery
Garage Wine Co.
Garage Wine was literally started in a garage in 2001, by Etobicoke expat Derek Mossman and his wife Pilar Miranda. Since then, the dynamic duo handcraft wines from a series of individual vineyards located in the Maule and Itata Valleys, in the south of Santiago, Chile.
Garage Wine Co makes wines from a series of individual parcels, small lots / bottlings of 8-22 barrels that include a series of dry-farmed field-blends of Carignan, Garnacha, Monastrell, País, Cinsault and Cab Franc grown on pre-phylloxera rootstock with small farmers in the Maule and Itata. Each wine is from a 1-2 hectare parcel in a different place.
Over the years working in the community they have raised a veritable posse of vineyard hands whose skills are working the vineyards the old way / the traditional way– originario. The vineyards are on the old coastal range of mountains closer to the Pacific and have granitic soils with cracks for roots to get deep down into.
When GWCo. speaks of the provenance of these wines they mean more than just the geological terroir. Derek and Pilar think the farming practices that have evolved over generations have as much to do with the wines’ personalities as the soils. All the wines are made by hand with native yeasts in small tanks, punched down manually and pressed out in a small basket press. GWCo is still very much a DIY operation and we still tow much of the crop back to the winery in trailers behind trusty pickup trucks 2,000 kilos at a time.
Press Reviews
WineAlign
91 points - Michael Godel
The 2018 país was, and I quote Garage Wine Company founder (and Oakvillean) Derek Mossman Knapp ”A wine that rose from the 2017 bush fires, quickly having ascended out of the ashes as something resurrected and reinvented.” The method is pressing whole clusters with stems and a co-fermented (2018) collection of país, stacked with carinena, one on top of the other. Now in 2021 it’s all about the mission grape, survivor and revivalist, the stacks of fruit like lyrics, on repeat. If you say the mantra often enough it becomes bible and this grape made in this way is the lifeblood and soul of Chile’s Secano Interior Cauquenes. A very instrumental red wine, comfortable, of relaxed warmth and lack of pressure that you would only expect at home, with people you love. “People can you feel it? Love is everywhere.” Drink 2023-2026. Tasted February 2023.
90 points - Megha Jandhyala
Born during the pandemic, the Garage Wine Company’s old-vine project is devoted to reviving previously-neglected old vines and supporting local farming communities. Founded by Mossman Knapp and Pilar Miranda, it is based in Maule, home to many dry-farmed, family-owned, old vineyards. Only about 5000 bottles of this old-vine país were made using traditional methods, including traditional dry-farming and hand-harvesting in the vineyards, and manual punchdowns and native yeast in the winery. It is a fresh, light, cheerfully fruity, wine, clean and uncluttered, with a down-to-earth, guileless charm. Red berries and herbs are joined by notes of pepper and wildflowers. The palate is medium-bodied and soft, with fine tannins, tart acids, and very good length.
- White Wine
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- 750ml
- 13.3% alc./vol
About the Winery
Blank Canvas
Blank Canvas is the personal wine range of husband and wife team, Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson.
Having completed over fifty back-to-back vintages in both New Zealand and Europe as an award-winning winemaking consultant, Matt together with Sophie felt it was time to create and build a wine brand together, with their first vintage in 2013. Blank Canvas embodies their own expression of art-meets-science with single-vineyard, small batch wines that push the sensory boundaries and challenge winemaking orthodoxy.
Winemaker Matt Thomson’s science background defines the parameters of his winemaking canvas, allowing creativity to flow within those bounds. Together with business partner, Master of Wine student and wife Sophie Parker-Thomson, Matt is striving to achieve the unique winemaking fusion between art and science, pushing the boundaries to capture a unique expression.
Sophie recently obtained her Master of Wine title, joining 149 women MWs globally with the total number of MWs in the world now 418 in 32 countries.
Press Reviews
James Suckling
92 points
Chamomile, dried lemons, oyster shells, green apples and beeswax. Fascinating umami character with excellent concentration, a medium body and an oily texture. Characterful. Sustainable. Drink now. Screw cap.
- White Wine
- Assyrtiko
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.00% alc./vol
Press Reviews
WineAlign
94 points - David Lawrason
This has a quite fine, delicate and complex nose of hay, wildflowers, leesy spice and vague tropical fruit. Perhaps some fennel as well. It is notably rich yet elegant, much more so than expected from assyrtiko. Powerful too at $14% alcohol. It is creamy and almost lush but the minerality and warmth keep it in check. Flavours have excellent to outstanding length. Some bitterness and a salty tang on the finish. Clearly an elite white that needs some attention.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.50% alc./vol
About the Winery
Blank Canvas
Blank Canvas is the personal wine range of husband and wife team, Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson.
Having completed over fifty back-to-back vintages in both New Zealand and Europe as an award-winning winemaking consultant, Matt together with Sophie felt it was time to create and build a wine brand together, with their first vintage in 2013. Blank Canvas embodies their own expression of art-meets-science with single-vineyard, small batch wines that push the sensory boundaries and challenge winemaking orthodoxy.
Winemaker Matt Thomson’s science background defines the parameters of his winemaking canvas, allowing creativity to flow within those bounds. Together with business partner, Master of Wine student and wife Sophie Parker-Thomson, Matt is striving to achieve the unique winemaking fusion between art and science, pushing the boundaries to capture a unique expression.
Sophie recently obtained her Master of Wine title, joining 149 women MWs globally with the total number of MWs in the world now 418 in 32 countries.
Press Reviews
Cameron Douglas, MS
95 Points
Ripe, intense, richly scented, varietal and fruity bouquet with aromas of ripe dark cherries and plums. There’s a definitive dried herb, savoury complexity - classic Otago message - then aromas of smoky oak with a quiet clove baking spice suggestion. All the action for this wine is on the palate - it’s delicious with a detailed story of spices and fruits, textures and length, concentration and a sense of place. Tannins are fine and polished, oak has a nut-like quality alongside the toast-wood. The core of fruit finishes with a floral note - a flick forming part of a lengthy youthful finish. Fabulous drinking now and through 2026+. Definitely a wine of discussion
- White Wine
- Assyrtiko
- Volcanic
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 14% alc./vol
Press Reviews
WineAlign - Michael Godel
95 Points
Vassaltis was the dream and now life's work of Yannis Valambous who resurrected his father's vineyards and turned them into some of Santorini's finest tracts. As of 2012 the project has taken root, launched forward and come to a most profound and exciting place. The consulting oenologists are Elias Roussakis and Yannis Papaeconomou who along with Valambous drill down into the island's volcanics to create haute assyrtiko with the greatest sense of place. The barrel aged style is of course Burgundian but it is impossible to smother Santorini and fully assimilate assyrtiko. Richness abounds, intensity magnifies and here assyrtiko takes on a whole next level of purpose. The methodology does allow for movement not wholly restricted to the salty and the mineral but the wine shows no lack of those elements. In the end this is about as big and rich as the grape will get. Drink 2023-2028. Tasted January 2023
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Orbit
95 points
This is impressively ripe and wonderfully fragrant with Black Doris plum, toasted spice, thyme, vanilla and hazelnut characters, leading to a concentrated palate delivering excellent weight and power, while remaining elegant and stylish. Richly expressed and delectably satisfying. At its best: now to 2031.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- 750ml
- 12.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Blank Canvas
Blank Canvas is the personal wine range of husband and wife team, Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson.
Having completed over fifty back-to-back vintages in both New Zealand and Europe as an award-winning winemaking consultant, Matt together with Sophie felt it was time to create and build a wine brand together, with their first vintage in 2013. Blank Canvas embodies their own expression of art-meets-science with single-vineyard, small batch wines that push the sensory boundaries and challenge winemaking orthodoxy.
Winemaker Matt Thomson’s science background defines the parameters of his winemaking canvas, allowing creativity to flow within those bounds. Together with business partner, Master of Wine student and wife Sophie Parker-Thomson, Matt is striving to achieve the unique winemaking fusion between art and science, pushing the boundaries to capture a unique expression.
Sophie recently obtained her Master of Wine title, joining 149 women MWs globally with the total number of MWs in the world now 418 in 32 countries.
Press Reviews
Camron Douglas, MS
97 Points
A perfumed, complex bouquet with aromas of roses and ripe cherry, a soft raw sugar and baking spices scent with a core of silty soil minerality. Equally complex with a firm yet finely textured mouthfeel, harmonious synergies between fruit, minerality, tannins and acidity. With each taste the complexity expands with flavours of cherry and plum, forest berries and wild flowers. A Grand Cru level wine with a delicious, layered, perfumed, youthful and long. Best drinking from late 2022 through 2030+
Bob Campbell
95 Points
From a dry-farmed vineyard in the Taylor Pass and one of the driest vintages on record. Dense, concentrated wine with floral, cherry, berry and dried herb flavours. A powerful, firmly-structured wine that is built for the long-haul
Jancis Robinson
17.5
Colour is a little lighter and more smudgy than in the Settlement 2019. And there’s much more lifted red-fruit scent and prettiness. The slightly herbal stemmy note shows more than on the Settlement, though it is well moderated to match the fruit, even if there is a hint of capsicum, which some Pinot lovers may not want. Juicy, deliciously stemmy in its fragrance and freshness on the palate, the zippy, fragrant fruit and whole-bunch technique perfectly matched to bring harmony and refreshment. Vibrant, mouth-watering, long. Utterly different from the more powerful Settlement. More like top-notch Hautes-Côtes in build and style.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- 750ml
- 14.0% alc./vol
About the Winery
Blank Canvas
Blank Canvas is the personal wine range of husband and wife team, Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson.
Having completed over fifty back-to-back vintages in both New Zealand and Europe as an award-winning winemaking consultant, Matt together with Sophie felt it was time to create and build a wine brand together, with their first vintage in 2013. Blank Canvas embodies their own expression of art-meets-science with single-vineyard, small batch wines that push the sensory boundaries and challenge winemaking orthodoxy.
Winemaker Matt Thomson’s science background defines the parameters of his winemaking canvas, allowing creativity to flow within those bounds. Together with business partner, Master of Wine student and wife Sophie Parker-Thomson, Matt is striving to achieve the unique winemaking fusion between art and science, pushing the boundaries to capture a unique expression.
Sophie recently obtained her Master of Wine title, joining 149 women MWs globally with the total number of MWs in the world now 418 in 32 countries.
Press Reviews
Camron Douglas
96 Points
A powerful and distinctive bouquet with a core complexity built around ripe red berry fruit, a natural savoury dried herb complexity, a gentle sweetness of oak and baking spice scents to match, there's density and richness alongside power and finesse. A powerful youthful energy as the wine touches the palate transitioning smoothly through berry flavours, the savoury seam and textures from tannins and acidity. Delicious, youthful and full of pinosity. A lovely expression, complex and lengthy. Best drinking from 2022 through 2030+. Outstanding.
Bob Campbell
95 Points
Intense, powerful, firmly-structured pinot noir from the Omaka Valley in the Southern Valleys subregion. The 50% whole-bunches in the ferment has contributed to the wine's tannic backbone, which is balanced by sweet fruit. Floral, dark cherry and dried herb flavours. A richly-textured wine with obvious cellaring potential.
Jancis Robinson
17.5+
Mid cherry red. A notably savoury aroma though no lack of dark and dark-red fruits lifted by a hint of perfumed sweetness, almost a floral note, highlighted by the whole-bunch component, which adds a herbal but not unripe quality which shows more on the day after opening. On the palate, this is a beauty, firmly structured but with extreme tannic finesse. That savoury character on the palate too, with just a hint of stems adding to the well-balanced freshness. Plenty of Southern Valleys character and power here, in an elegant style, very slightly chewy at this young stage but even so it’s hard to resist drinking it now even though it should age well. Just goes to show that Marlborough doesn’t have to make tutti-frutti Pinot
- White Wine
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 1 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Winealign - John Szabo, MS
94 points
The small, family-run estate of Hans Herzog produces a bewildering array of idiosyncratic wines from a long list of varieties known and unknown, and the estate's version of sauvignon is unsurprisingly a far cry from the Marlborough standard. It's already quite deep gold-coloured, and shows a distinctive, non-sauvignon profile, very low on fruit and dominated by dried hay, old wood, pine bark and other resinous notes, herbal tea, dried flowers and a myriad of other intriguing scents. The palate is full-bodied, fleshy and highly extracted - this is no 15 ton per hectare crop here, but rather ultra low-yielding, dense and concentrated juice, saturated with flavour. Buyers may be shocked at the price, but it's in a category of its own. The only misstep by the winery is to call this a Marlborough sauvignon; buyers of the mainstream commercial versions will be on totally unfamiliar ground. Fans of top quality whites, however, will want to try this. Drink or hold, who knows? A decade should not be a problem. Tasted May 2022.
- Red Wine
- Malbec
- Sustainable, Vegan-Friendly
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14% alc./vol
About the Winery
Matías Riccitelli
Matías Riccitelli was born in Cafayete, Salta. He identifies as a traveler and a tireless dreamer. After countless harvests throughout the world, he decided to combine everything he has learned and dedicate himself to exploring the excellent terroirs of Mendoza and the teachings of his mentor, and father, Jorge Riccitelli.Matías started his boutique winery in 2009, located in Las Compuertas at 1100 meters above sea level. It is the highest area of Lujan de Cuyo, and here he tends 20 hectares of ungrafted old vineyards. Matías also works with small, independent growers that own their lands at the bottom of the Andes halfway between 1000 and 1700 meters above sea level - in Gualtallary, Chacayes, Altamira and La Carrera.
All harvests are conducted by hand and fermentation takes place in small concrete vats and concrete eggs. Purity and delicacy in winemaking are prized by Matías and great care is taken in preserving the fruit’s singularity in order to obtain vibrant wines.
Press Reviews
James Suckling
93 Points
Blackberry with some plum and dried tobacco on the nose, following through to a full body with tight, medium-chewy tannins and a flavorful finish. Still a bit tight now, but will show even more beautifully with a little bottle age. Try after 2021.
Wine Advocate
91 Points - Luis Gutiérrez
The floral and fruit-driven 2020 Hey Malbec! is young and juicy, very drinkable, varietal and balanced, from a warm year when they managed to contain the ripeness. The palate is round and fleshy. Very good.