Karim Mussi Saffie

The Essentials - Role: owner. - Winery: Bodegas Altocedro. - Place: La Consulta, Mendoza, Argentina. - Craft note: sustainable growing practices for limited-production, terroir-driven wines.

Signature

Karim's signature wines trace a focused path through Altocedro’s identity, each bottle carrying the imprint of its place and vintage. Among them are Altocedro Año Cero Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 and Altocedro Año Cero Malbec 2013, two wines that anchor the range with the discipline and freshness implied by the Año Cero name. Altocedro La Consulta Select 2012 turns attention more explicitly to the estate’s home territory, while Altocedro Año Cero Tempranillo 2011 adds another layer to the house style, showing how the winery’s vision extends across varieties without losing coherence. Rounding out the selection is Los Poetas Libertad Blend 2016, a name that suggests a more expressive register within the same compact, terroir-conscious brief. Taken together, these wines reflect the larger shape of Karim Mussi Saffie’s work at Bodegas Altocedro: a steady emphasis on farming with care, making in modest quantities, and allowing La Consulta, Mendoza, Argentina to remain unmistakably present in the final result. The winery’s identity is built in that tension between discipline and expression, where each release is meant to feel specific to its time, its site, and its origins.