REGION: Valle de Uco

Agustín Lopez, Mauricio Castro, Marcela Manini and Sebastian Zuccardi first met at the Liceo Agrícola & Enológico School in Mendoza. Over 20 years later, they are still making wine together and produce sparkling cuvees from parcels across the Uco Valley ranging from 1300-1550m above sea level.

Founded by two friends, Federico Isgró and Santiago Bernasconi, BIRA is a project to watch. Their Italian heritage inspired them to embark on an adventure into Argentina's viticultural past and ultimately led them to establish their Sangiovese-focused project, BIRA, in 2017 in the Uco Valley.

Emilia Armando and Eduardo Soler founded La Cayatena in 2016 and released their first wines in 2020 using fruit from their 1860s vineyard. Today, they revive their vines, gardens and olive trees respecting the old ancestral farming techniques always with long term sustainability in mind.

David Bonomi, Edgrado del Popolo, and his son Santiago founded Per Se Wines in 2012 with the intention of making pure mountain wines. They planted vines on land they farm in conjunction with the Monks of the Monasterio del Cristo Orante.

Stella Crinita is a biodynamic project established in 2002, which located in Argentina’s Uco Valley by Joanna Foster and Ernesto Catena. Tied with their combined passion for social and environmental justice, Stella Crinita is guided by these core values in creating authentic and vibrant wines.

Eduardo Soler and two friends started Ver Sacrum in 2012 with the concept of growing and vinifying Rhone varietals. Their winemaking ethos focuses on fresh, low alcohol, lighter skin contact, native yeast, honest, and easy drinking wines.

Founded in 2007 by the Michelini brothers, the winery and vineyards are located outside the town of Tupungato in Argentina's Uco Valley at 4,500 ft above sea level. The winery practices organic methods in the vineyards, hand harvests its grapes and uses only native yeasts in the winemaking process.