Riccitelli 'Kung Fu' Malbec 2024

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Matías Riccitelli is a Mendoza winemaker whose Kung Fu line was born of his desire to make wines with minimal intervention that fully express the high-altitude Gualtallary terroir of the Uco Valley. The vineyards, farmed agroecologically without herbicides or systemic products, sit at 1,400 meters on calcareous soils. Grapes are hand-harvested in small boxes and move by gravity into small concrete eggs, where fermentation with indigenous yeast — half whole-cluster, half destemmed — proceeds at 24–26°C before eight months of aging in the same concrete eggs. The wine is bottled without added sulfites, clarification, or stabilization.