Zuccardi Poliganos Malbec with pizza
Linda prepared a delicious homemade pizza with bacon, onion, chives, basil, honey cooked tomatoes and Parmesan. Following a delightful Malbec we had at lunch the other day, I pulled this Argentine Malbec for an accompaniment. As I have written often in these pages, an ideal food and wine pairing, such as this, accentuates and amplifies the enjoyment of both!
Zuccardi San Pablo Poliganos Malbec 2021
We did a Malbec wine tasting with Linda’s woman’s social group last year wherein I wrote about the producer of this label, Zuccardi – Woman’s Social Group Argentine Wine Tasting.
One of those labels, like this one, was from the Zuccardi Family Winery in Maipú, Mendoza, Argentina. Today it is run by winemaker Sebastián Zuccardi whose grandfather planted the first grapevines in 1963 and has grown to become a leader in Argentine wine production.
From his father, José Alberto Zuccardi, Sebastián inherited the determination and desire to constantly strive for excellence.
Sebastián, third generation of the family, follows his father, José Alberto Zuccardi, leading a team of agricultural engineers and enologists, in producing some of the the highest quality wines in the Uco Valley.
The winery has had a research and development area since 2008, dedicated to studying the terroir and the diverse variables that affect wine quality. The goal, in Sebastián’s own words, is “not to strive for perfect wines, but wines that express the place, the region.”
Poliganos is a family of Zuccardi wines, six white and six red from several sites across the Uco Valley representing a selection that expresses the particular characteristics of different terroirs within the Valley.
According to the rear label, the name “Poliganos refers to the many sides of a vineyard. Sebastián Zuccardi explores those many sides with grape selections from the micro regions of Mendoza, discovering how they impact the wines in their unique ways.” Zuccardi Poligonos del Valle de Uco San Pablo Malbec 2021
