Cheval des Andes

Pierre Lurton – CEO of Saint-Emilion’s Cheval Blanc – was visiting Argentina in the late 1990s when he stumbled across a plot of ungrafted Malbec, planted in 1929, with a clone imported to the country pre-phylloxera, when the grape was found widely in Bordeaux. Lurton saw it as an opportunity to produce a wine that had its roots in Bordeaux yet could no longer be made there. He teamed up with Roberto de la Mota – the winemaker behind Terrazas de los Andes – to craft wines that would prove the quality possible in Argentina.