Familia Delmotte Thibaut Natural – 2022

8,600 ft.
Malbec
4,500 bottles produced

This 2022 from the lofty vineyards of Cachi is easily a $100+ bottle of wine on its own. The winemaker, our friend (and neighbor, at just an hour or so away!) Thibaut Delmotte is the head winemaker at Bodega Colomé, the folks behind the legendary “Altura Maxima,” which goes for around $130 a bottle (we’ve seen it sell for as much as $195).

Made by hand with zero pesticides or sulfites, this malbec is what you might call an auteur wine, the embodiment of Thibaut’s ideals and philosophies as a winemaker. You will be shocked at how round yet solid the body is for an unoaked, unfiltered, pure malbec (was 8 months aging in a concrete egg the secret?)