When, in 1998, Roberto Luka planted the Finca Sophenia winery in Gualtallary, he was satisfied its location might yield wines that might take the world’s most demanding palates without warning. Nearly twenty years after the launch of the primary classic produced at this household property, Luka has been confirmed proper.
The undertaking, which he now runs along with his daughter Eugenia, has received quite a few awards and persistently been given excessive scores by critics and journalists the world over.
With winemaking overseen by younger knowledgeable Joaquín Martin, Finca Sophenia provides a complicated vary of wines whereas additionally investing in ongoing analysis and improvement programmes.
‘Our vineyard and vineyards are positioned in a wonderful website for the manufacturing of high-end wines,’ says Martin. Worldwide specialists agree that this small space on the Tupungato mountain, in southern Uco Valley, is likely one of the world’s greatest terroirs. ‘It’s a privilege to have been pioneers of a terroir that everybody is now speaking about,’ Luka concludes.
Rather more than a Finest in Present
Though this isn’t the primary time {that a} wine from Finca Sophenia performs effectively on the DWWA, the 2022 honour deserves to be examined in better depth.
The Altosur Malbec 2021 ranked, out of 18,244 entries, among the many 50 greatest wines of the yr with a 97-point rating.
This meant that, along with the Platinum Medal, it was additionally named Finest in Present within the Worth class, as one in every of solely ten wines within the High 50 bought for £15 or much less.
‘We consider that the idea of a wine’s high quality is its origin, and we improve the underlying potential of our terroir by way of sustainable, natural practices,’ says Eugenia Luka, Director of Communications, Sustainability and Biology at Finca Sophenia.
‘This new honour from Decanter is extraordinarily vital not simply to our vineyard but additionally to Argentina, and to Gualtallary as a micro-region. We’re exhibiting the world that our nation could make extraordinary wines in each market phase.’
Earlier distinctions received by Finca Sophenia on the DWWA embrace a Platinum Medal (97 pts) for Synthesis The Mix 2018 and a Gold Medal (95 pts) for the 2019 Finca Sophenia Property Reserva Malbec, each within the awards’s 2021 version. On the 2018 DWWA, the Synthesis Malbec 2015 had additionally received a Platinum Medal (97 pts).
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