🇦🇷 Second terroir · Argentina

Valle de UCO
Mendoza

At 1,000 metres beneath the Aconcagua. Oria's second terroir: Malbec and Sangiovese with extreme thermal amplitude and unrepeatable alluvial soils.

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1,000m

Altitude a.s.l.

+18°C

Thermal amplitude

320

Days of sun a year

Aconcagua

Guardian peak

The terroir

The Patagonia of Argentine wines

The Valle de UCO is the highest and coolest winegrowing zone in Mendoza. Set at the foot of the Aconcagua (6,962 m), the extreme altitude filters UV radiation, slows the ripening of the grape and preserves a natural acidity that is impossible to obtain in the lower valleys.

The soils are alluvial: carried down by the Aconcagua's meltwater rivers over millennia, with layers of stone, sand and silt that drain perfectly and force the vine to send its roots several metres deep in search of the water table.

Roberto Cipresso chose this terroir as Oria's second for the same reason he chose Val d'Orcia: in both places, nature does the hard work. The winemaker only needs not to interfere.

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The varieties

Malbec, Sangiovese and Cabernet

Malbec

The king of the Valle de UCO. At 1,000 m it produces notes of violet, black plum and spice with silky tannins that the heat of the Mendoza plain does not allow.

Sangiovese

Oria's signature variety, transplanted to UCO. The altitude and the alluvial soil produce a Sangiovese radically different from that of Val d'Orcia: more mineral, darker.

Cabernet Franc

The supporting variety of the UCO blend. It brings the herbaceous structure characteristic of the Mendoza highlands: red pepper, graphite and damp cedar.

Three terroirs, one project

Mendoza is part of Oria

Oria members have access to all three terroirs. Val d'Orcia is the centre; Mendoza and Uruguay are the global expressions of the same spirit.

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