Experience the Calchaquí Valley: Up to 20% Off Extreme Altitude Wine
PLEASE NOTE: Wines are first come, first served. Once all cases have been claimed, this offer will close.
Exclusive Opportunity:
Reserve Never-Before-Imported Calchaquí Valley Wines
(PLUS, members in good standing receive up to 20% off)
Experience Argentine Wines like never before… From 6,000 ft to almost 9,000 ft, this collection has wines from the legendary vineyards of the Calchaquí Valley
A note from Bonner Private Wine Partnership founder, Will Bonner:
Dear Member in Good Standing,
Last month, you received one of our most unique collections to date… six extreme altitude Calchaquí Valley wines from some of the most isolated vineyards in the world…
We’ve been flooded with messages over the past month from Partnership members asking, just when the Calchaquí Valley Collection will be available for purchase?
Today, we have a limited number of wines from this Calchaquí Valley collection available.
As a Partnership member in good standing, you can be the first to reserve an entire case (or half case) of your favorite wines from our extreme altitude Argentine collection at a great discount…
10% off your half case of 6 bottles…
PLUS a whopping 20% (up to $156) off your full case of 12 bottles or more!
This kind of deal is only possible because we spent years building relationships with wineries all over the Calchaquí Valley… These wines are extremely limited production – so do not wait to reserve your cases.
Simply scroll down to select your wines (available in cases of 6, 12, 18, or 24 bottles).
Oh, and shipping is on us!
Cheers,
Will Bonner
Your Bottle of 2019 Tacuil Doña Ascensión Malbec Cabernet (94 pts)
Five generations after Ascensión brought the first malbec grape vines to the Calchaquí Valley, her descendants, Raúl and Alvaro Dávalos, continue to make wine there. Their winery and vineyard, in a little valley called Tacuil, produces acclaimed, 90+ point wines such as previous Partnership favorites like RD and Mayuco, along with the Bonner family’s wine, Tacana.
Typically, Raul eschews the use of oak in his wine. It is not the traditional Calchaquí way. His father, a staunch believer in this practice, was furious at Raúl’s plan to age this wine for 12 months in (well used and practically neutral) oak barrels. But times are changing, and Raúl’s friends begged him to try it with this special malbec.
The cabernet adds a dash of spice and elegance to the blend, softening the extreme altitude malbec’s tannin teeth. Beauty taming the beast. If you can resist polishing off a bottle in a single sitting, leave it open for a few days to see how it shifts (watch the black fruit). Only 7,000 bottles produced. 94 points (Atkin).
Your Bottle of 2019 Arca Yaco Imaginate Malbec (6,889 ft)
His bodega Arca Yaco is a true boutique estate, where Matìas is involved in winemaking, sales, communications, and every other aspect of the business. Matìas founded Arca Yaco in 2010, and in 2015 vinified the first harvest. Since the beginning his wines (Amar y Vivir, which we featured in our 2021 Argentina collection, as well as Imaginate) have received great recognition and prestige.
Imaginate is an unoaked malbec (concrete, stainless steel), with notes of chocolate, black cherry, bramble berries, and a refreshing minerality.
Your Bottle of 2020 Daniel Guillen El Viticultor Malbec Cab Sauv (8,040 ft)
Taste it now to find wild blackberries, black pepper (from the iron in the soil), tobacco, and leather. But if you can grab an extra bottle, cellar it till 2026 to see El Viticultor reach its zenith. Only 5520 bottles made.
Your Bottle of 2019 Sunal Salvaje Malbec (8,694 ft)
Augustín Lanús and his Sunal wines have been perennial all-stars since our adventure in Calchaquí wine began. But this single-vineyard “Salvaje” is special even by his standards.
Augustín usually favors blending terroirs. Why do a single vineyard?
The answer is Cachi, a terroir at the northernmost edge of the valley, in the foothills of the snowcapped Cachi mountains. It’s the frontier’s frontier, bone dry except for snowmelt that drains easily through the sandy clay soil. To maximize Cachi’s impact, Augustín opted for no oak, and had the wine spend a year in a concrete egg. Despite its name, we found Salvaje to be surprisingly balanced, with cranberry and raspberry playing counterpoint to beets and fig. The noble savage. Only 6,000 bottles made.
Your Bottle of 2018 Atypico Malbec Cab (6,069 ft)
Notice the age of those malbec vines (the Calchaquí is known for exceptionally old vines). At Tolombón, the grapes get an early harvest (the reflective heat from the stony soil matures the grapes faster than usual). After that, it’s 4 days of cold maceration in stainless steel, and 18 months of aging in new barrels by Vicard of the Cognac region – the last of France’s great artisan tonnelleries (cooperages).
If you notice some subtle differences from the 2017, there’s more than just the vintage year at play. At harvest, the winemakers use only the best plots – you seldom get the same vine twice. With blueberry and black olive on the nose; balsamic, mint, and thyme on the palate; and a balanced mouthfeel with a long finish.
Your Bottle of 2019 Paco Puga L’Amitié Robusto Malbec Cab franc Merlot (7,500 ft)
This family business works with various grape producers in the Calchaquí region to achieve wines of unique identity. The enology is a simple interpretation of the terroir using stainless steel tanks, concrete tanks and French oak barrels. Working without fixed recipes, the family prefers to evaluate each climatic year to determine which tools will make their wines better.
Can’t Decide? Get A Case of All Six
Calchaquí Valley Collection
Our journey this year takes us from the far south of the valley, at the town of Tolombón, through the hip wine and golf town of Cafayate (a sort of Aspen of the Andes), then north and west through Pucará, Tacuil, the Quebrada San Lucas, and, finally, the great Cachi mountains.
Visit these lone green dots, lost in a vast desert wilderness, completely self-sufficient and hours from the nearest neighbor, and each one feels like its own world, with its own history, customs, and, most importantly, its own soil and weather…
- 2019 Tacuil Doña Ascensión Malbec Cabernet (94 pts)
- 2019 Arca Yaco Imaginate Malbec (6,889 ft)
- 2020 Daniel Guillen El Viticultor Malbec Cab Sauv (8,040 ft)
- 2019 Sunal Salvaje Malbec (8,694 ft)
- 2018 Atypico Malbec Cab (6,069 ft)
- 2019 Paco Puga L’Amitié Robusto Malbec Cab franc Merlot (7,500 ft)
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