Calchaquí Valleys · Northern Argentina

Wine from the far edge of Argentina

Vineyards past 8,700 feet. Cold mountain nights, fierce sunlight, and a winemaker who drives nine hours down dirt roads to reach them. This is SUNAL, by Agustín Lanús.

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Choose your wines Where is Salta?

Highest vineyard

8,793 ft

2,680 m · Cachi, Salta

2,680 m

Highest vineyard

9

Villages farmed

3

Argentine provinces

4,000

Bottles per Salvaje cuvée

“Many say that driving 9 hours into the mountains on dangerous dirt roads just to check on our grapes is crazy, but then they try the wine and they understand.”

Agustín Lanús

The Calchaquí Valleys of Salta — high desert vineyard country in northern Argentina.

Where is Salta?

Northern Argentina. A different wine country.

Most Argentine Malbec comes from Mendoza, far to the south. This is Salta — high desert valleys nine hours north, where vineyards climb past 8,700 feet and the growing season swings from fierce daytime sun to near-freezing nights.

That gap is the whole point. It slows ripening, thickens skins, and holds acidity in fruit that would otherwise go flabby at this latitude.

Region: Calchaquí Valleys, spanning Salta, Catamarca and Tucumán
Villages: Cafayate, Cachi, Luracatao, Angastaco, Amaicha del Valle, Tolombón, Santa María, Corral Quemado, Pucará
Altitude range: 1,700 m – 2,680 m (5,577 ft – 8,793 ft)
Base: Cafayate, Salta

Why extreme altitude is better

Everything good is in the skin.

Agustín Lanús Wines specialises in wine made from extreme-altitude vineyards — over 2,200 metres — where intense UV rays help concentrate flavonoids, and wide swings between day and night temperatures result in unusually thick grape skins.

And it is in the skin where all the best things about a wine are found: colour, aroma, flavour and complexity.

Anatomy of a wine grape (Vitis vinifera): a whole dark blue grape beside a cut cross-section, labelled skin, pulp and seed.

SkinTannins · Colour · Aroma · Complexity
PulpWater · Sugar · Fruit acids
SeedBitter oil

How the range is built

Three tiers, sorted by altitude.

Agustín organises his own wines by how high the fruit grows. It is the clearest way into the range — the higher you go, the smaller the production and the more extreme the site.

Bad Brothers

High altitude · 1,750–2,000 m

Single-varietal wines from established Calchaquí sites. The most approachable entry to what altitude does to a grape.

SUNAL

Extreme altitude · above 2,200 m

The flagship. Fruit from the very limits of where grapes can be grown — including Ilógico, Salvaje and Ícono.

Specialty

Calchaquí Valley · 1,750–2,200 m

Small-lot and exploratory bottlings, including work with old Criolla vines and indigenous-community vineyards.

Agustín Lanús on horseback in the Calchaquí Valleys.

Agustín Lanús standing in one of his vineyards beneath the Calchaquí mountains.

Meet the winemaker

A winemaker who goes looking.

Agustín Lanús is an Argentine agricultural engineer and sommelier who took a Master of Science in Viticulture & Oenology through the Vinifera EuroMaster programme — Montpellier, Bordeaux and Asti.

He worked through some of Europe's most exacting cellars, then came home to the Calchaquí Valleys to do the harder thing: find and farm vineyards at the outer limit of where wine is possible.

The path

Training
Vinifera EuroMaster
MSc in Viticulture & Oenology across Montpellier, Bordeaux and Asti.
Italy · Piedmont
Ceretto
Barolo and Barbaresco, where site expression is the entire argument.
France · Bordeaux
Château Beychevelle
Classified-growth Saint-Julien — structure, blending, patience.
Argentina & beyond
Rutini, then Spain, Portugal and South Africa
Then back to Salta to build his own project in the Calchaquí Valleys.

A high-altitude vineyard beneath snow-capped peaks in the Calchaquí Valleys.

The wines

Six wines, from $40.

Every bottle below is in stock and shipping now. Choose a quantity, add it to your order, then check out further down this page.

Sunal Ilógico Malbec 2019 bottle

Extreme altitude

Sunal Ilógico Malbec

2019 · Angastaco 2,400 m & Amaicha del Valle 2,200 m

The wine that made the name. Three micro-terroirs blended into one Malbec — deep violet, balsamic aromatics, a note of rosehip. 40,000 bottles.

From$40

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Sunal Salvaje Luracatao Malbec bottle

Extreme altitude

Sunal Salvaje Luracatao

2021 · Luracatao, Salta · 2,230 m

Ancestral method, minimum intervention, bottled the same year it was picked. Very aromatic — thyme, jarilla, dill and menthol over figs. 4,000 bottles.

From$48

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Atypico Malbec-Cabernet 2019 bottle

Calchaquí Valley

Atypico Malbec–Cabernet

2019 · Calchaquí Valleys

A Malbec–Cabernet blend from the Calchaquí Valleys.

From$49

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Sunal Exploración Criolla Chica 2022 bottle

Specialty

Sunal Exploración Criolla

2022 · Calchaquí Valleys

Criolla — the variety that has grown in these valleys for more than four hundred years. Clean, elegant and fresh.

From$50

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Bad Brothers Facón Syrah 2019 bottle

High altitude

Bad Brothers Facón Syrah

2019 · Corral Quemado, Catamarca · 2,100 m

Syrah grown at 6,890 feet in Catamarca — the northern edge of the project, and the most immediately generous wine in the range.

From$51

Quantity

Sunal Ícono Malbec 2017 bottle

Extreme altitude

Sunal Ícono

2017 · Vineyards 2,200–2,700 m

The top of the range, from some of the highest vineyards in the world. Twenty-four months in French oak. Black olive, violet, blackberry, a thread of dill. 6,000 bottles.

From$87

Quantity

Two riders on horseback among the vines beneath the Calchaquí mountains.

The partnership

How these wines reach you.

Agustín Lanús's wines are brought to the United States exclusively by Bonner Private Wines — a direct partnership with the winemaker, from the Calchaquí Valleys to your door.

It is why you won't find these labels on a supermarket shelf, and why every order is shipped straight from our U.S. warehouse.

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