Fósil is a white mountain wine. It comes from vineyards cultivated in the Paraje Estancia within the IG San Pablo, at 1400 meters (4,593 ft) of elevation, and less than one kilometre away from the beginning of the Andes Mountains.
The immensity of the mountain range and its proximity make everything in this place extreme: its climate, its landscape, its identity. Fósil is a wine of place. Born from the unrepeatable combination of cold climate, calcareous soils, and Andean breezes from one of the highest areas of the Uco Valley.
The 2023 vintage was warm and very dry, which gave excellent health and quality in the grapes. It is a year that is also characterized by lower yields, due to the frost in the spring of 2022. Knowing the particularities of each place in the vineyards allowed Zuccardi to define the harvest time for each area very precisely, always in search of freshness, the expression of place and avoiding overripeness.
