Altos las Hormigas, Malbec 'Reserve', 2022 BFCM_2023 The 2024 balances both grapes'

The 2024 balances both grapes' personalities: dark berry weight from the Nero d'Avola

cracked pepper

mineral-driven Friulano with the depth of a wine that respects both vintage and terroir

marionberry

and Morgeot

Altos las Hormigas, Malbec 'Reserve', 2022 BFCM_2023 The 2024 balances both grapes'The 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