Stella Crinita

A shooting star, that is what Stella Crinita means in Latin.

This winery sits at the centre of a biodynamic universe that Joanna Foster and Ernesto Catena created. All surrounded by trees, vines, water paths, and llamas. After traversing the long road of organic and biodynamic farming, they encountered the world of minimal intervention wines. Stella Crinita currently works with 17 hectares of selected parcels. Their vineyard is located at an altitude of 1100 meters, in the Uco Valley.

It is a desert region with more than 300 sunny days and less than 200mm of rainfall a year. Most of the water comes from glacier melt from the Andes mountains. It drains down the mountain through ancient channels of an irrigation system inherited from the Indigenous Huarpes tribes. Water is rationed between vineyards, farmers, villages and towns through the opening and closing of flood-control gates.

The soil is mostly loamy clay with deep buried river stones, and is blessed by the cold pristine water that arrives each summer from the snowy Andes. It is a constant work in progress. They grow bio-dynamic seasonal vegetables and fruit which feed them and their team.

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