Finca & Bodega Arca Yaco

About Finca & Bodega Arca Yaco

"Arca Yaco is at 2100 m.s.n.m, with predominantly calcareous soils and where fresh water of thaw and high quality slopes travels. Its history dates back to 1996, the year in which Matías Etchart's family, its creator, sells to a French group the Etchart winery that founded its grandfather Arnaldo Benito Etchart in the decade of the 30th. At that time, Matías Etchart today head of the Arca Yaco winery was 24 years old and since then he already knew that he wanted to continue with this activity that since a child he always gave him pleasure and joy. In 2010 and after several years of touring the Calchaquí valleys looking for a place to settle and start its own project, it is that it acquires the farm “ Arca Yaco ” in the gorge of San Lucas, Valle Calchaquí. In 2015 he received the first harvest and in a short time his wines achieve recognition and good reviews by placing their wines among the most prominent in Argentina by journalists, sommeliers and critics in general. Arca Yaco is truly a boutique winery in which its owner and winemaker is involved in all the cellar tasks: elaboration, parenting, bottling, sales, communication and much more. " "Arca Yaco is at 2100 m.s.n.m, with predominantly calcareous soils and where fresh water of thaw and high quality slopes travels. Its history dates back to 1996, the year in which Matías Etchart's family, its creator, sells to a French group the Etchart winery that founded its grandfather Arnaldo Benito Etchart in the decade of the 30th. At that time, Matías Etchart today head of the Arca Yaco winery was 24 years old and since then he already knew that he wanted to continue with this activity that since a child he always gave him pleasure and joy. In 2010 and after several years of touring the Calchaquí valleys looking for a place to settle and start its own project, it is that it acquires the farm “ Arca Yaco ” in the gorge of San Lucas, Valle Calchaquí. In 2015 he received the first harvest and in a short time his wines achieve recognition and good reviews by placing their wines among the most prominent in Argentina by journalists, sommeliers and critics in general. Arca Yaco is truly a boutique winery in which its owner and winemaker is involved in all the cellar tasks: elaboration, parenting, bottling, sales, communication and much more. "