Master Class: Terroir Talk with Winemaker Sebastián Zuccardi
A Deep Dive into the Uco Valley
Wednesday June 4, 2025
Porzana – 200 N 1st St Minneapolis, MN (Map)
12:30 pm – Reception (light fare)
1:00 – 3:00 pm – Seminar with Sebastián Zuccardi
Seating is limited – RSVP by May 23
Email Jonathan Waldrop – jonathanw@winesellersltd.com
Join one of Argentina’s most visionary wine leaders, Sebastián Zuccardi, for an exclusive seminar crafted for wine professionals and buyers.
This in-depth, guided tasting and discussion offers unparalleled insight into one of South America’s most dynamic wine regions—from the perspective of the family who helped put it on the global map.
About the Uco Valley
The Uco Valley is more than just Argentina’s high-elevation crown jewel—it’s a mosaic of microclimates, altitudes, and soils that are redefining the modern identity of South American wine. Sebastián Zuccardi, head winemaker and third-generation steward of Zuccardi Wines, will share his pioneering work mapping the valley’s distinct terroirs and translating them into site-specific wines of elegance, minerality, and place.
About Sebastián Zuccardi & Zuccardi Wines
Founded in the 1960s by Sebastián’s grandfather, Zuccardi Wines has grown from humble beginnings in Mendoza to become one of the most celebrated wine estates in Latin America, with three consecutive World’s Best Vineyard awards and international acclaim for their terroir-driven wines – learn more about Zuccardi.
As third generation of his winemaking family, Sebastián’s approach fuses innovation with reverence for nature, championing low-intervention winemaking and deep geological research into the region’s complex Andean soils.
Under his initiative since 2008, the winery has developed an area of research and development dedicated to the study of the terroir and the many variables that affect the production of the wine. The goal is, in the words of Sebastián himself,“not to look for perfect wines, but those that express the place, the region.”
Seminar Line-Up
Many of these selections have not been seen before in our market!
NV Zuccardi Blanc de Blancs
One of the best sparkling wines in Argentina and the great project of Sebastián Zuccardi after having worked in Champagne.
2023 Fosil San Pablo Chardonnay
4,593 ft of elevation, and only 985 ft away from the beginning of the Cordillera; born from the unrepeatable combination of cold weather, calcareous soils, and Andean breezes from one of the highest areas of the Uco Valley.
2023 Botanico Gualtallary Chardonnay
A Chardonnay that offers the best characteristics of Gualtallary Monasterio (at 4527 ft above sea level), with its calcareous stones, cool climate and rich native vegetation.
2019 Finca Los Membrillos Semillon
This vineyard, located at 3,477 ft above sea level, is surrounded by rows of quince trees that honor the rich historic traditions of the viticulturists of the southern Uco Valley.
2020 Aluvional Paraje Altamira Malbec
The alluvional line expresses the identity of appellations through Malbec as the vehicle of expression. Altamira is 3,608 ft above sea level with stratified alluvial soil with depth between 10 and 80 cm, on a conglomerate of large stones covered with calcium carbonate.
2020 Aluvional Gualtallary Malbec
An expression of Malbec from Gualtallary, Tupungato at 4,460 ft above sea level- alluvial, with gravel covered with calcium carbonate at a shallow depth, caliche and calcareous sands.
2019 Finca Piedra Infinita Malbec
Zuccardi Finca represents a deeper step in identifying the best micro-regions of Argentina. The term Finca determines a specific place, a small plot of unique features. This vineyard sits at 3,608 ft wotj soil of middle feoth, with 60 cm – 1.97 feet of sand and silt. Below rocks with a clay layer.
2019 Finca Las Cerilladas Malbec
For this wine, single vineyard plots with the richest caliche soils were selected, resting on a base of alluvial stones covered with calcium carbonate.
2020 Finca Piedra Infinita Supercal Malbec
Sebastián Zuccardi describes Supercal as his lieu-dit from the Finca Piedra Infinita estate, noting that they are in a stricter style than the Infinita blend and even “a bit unbalanced and extreme early on in terms of their texture.”
Seating is limited – RSVP by May 23
Email Jonathan Waldrop – jonathanw@winesellersltd.com