Cheval Des Andes 2018 | Mendoza

Name: Cheval Des Andes 2018 | Mendoza
Brand: Cheval des Andes
SKU: 279
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Cheval Des Andes 2018 | Mendoza

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Cheval des Andes, Mendoza (Argentina). Joint project of Château Cheval Blanc (1er Grand Cru Classé A, Saint-Émilion) and Terrazas de los Andes. 47 ha of vineyards in Las Compuertas (Luján de Cuyo) and Paraje Altamira (Uco Valley), at the foot of the Andes.

70% Malbec, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon. Vinified in small 80-hl stainless steel tanks. Aged 14 months in Central France oak barrels: 70% new, 30% one year old.

Identificación
El Cheval des Andes 2018 es un vino tinto de la bodega Cheval des Andes, ubicada en la denominación de origen Mendoza, Argentina. Se trata de un proyecto conjunto entre la bodega francesa Château Cheval Blanc (Premier Grand Cru Classé A de Saint-Émilion) y Terrazas de los Andes. La parcela productora consta de 50 hectáreas situadas al pie de la Cordillera de los Andes.

Elaboración y Composición
La vendimia de 2018 se caracteriza como una añada fresca y una de las mejores de los últimos tiempos en la región. Según Parker, la mezcla es de un 70% de Malbec y un 30% de Cabernet Sauvignon. La vinificación se hace en pequeños tanques de acero inoxidable de 80 hl y la crianza dura 14 meses en barricas de roble del Centro de Francia, un 70% nuevas y un 30% de un año de uso. El volumen de producción fue de 100.000 botellas y el embotellado tuvo lugar en enero de 2020.

Perfil y Puntuaciones
Según Parker, tiene un 14,5% de alcohol y un pH de 3,73. Se describe como un vino joven, jugoso, elegante y equilibrado, que conserva notas herbáceas y tostadas. Su cuerpo es medio a completo, destacando una textura cremosa y lujosa similar a la del Burdeos moderno, con taninos muy finos y un final largo, seco y preciso. Según Robert Parker, es el mejor Cheval des Andes que ha degustado jamás, con todo lo necesario para una larga evolución en botella.

Las puntuaciones recibidas son: 98 puntos por Robert Parker y 98 puntos por James Suckling.

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The 2018 Cheval des Andes is a blend of 70% Malbec and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon fermented in small lots in 3,000- to 8,000-liter tanks and matured 40% in 225-liter oak barrels, 40% in 400-liter oak barrels and the remaining 20% in 2,500-liter oak vats for 13 months. Ninety percent of the oak used was French and the rest a blend of Austrian, Slovenian and German oak, 50% of it new. 2018 has been one of the best vintages in recent times in Mendoza, and the wine shows it. It's a cooler vintage, and the wine has improved in freshness and elegance without losing any clout. It's 14.5% alcohol and has a pH of 3.73. This is young, juicy, elegant and balanced and still has some herbal and toasted notes; it's medium to full-bodied, with the creamy and luxurious texture of the modern Bordeaux, ultra fine tannins and a long, dry and precise finish. It's still undeveloped and seems to have all the components and the balance between them for a long and positive development in bottle. With wines like this, I sometimes wish I had a time machine so I could see them in 20 years from now... I think this is the finest Cheval des Andes I've ever tasted. 100,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2020.

Learn more about Cheval des Andes

The estate was born in 1999 from an agreement between Château Cheval Blanc, of Saint-Émilion, and Terrazas de los Andes. The reason for the journey was very specific: Pierre Lurton, president of Cheval Blanc, was looking for ungrafted Malbec.

That explains everything else. Phylloxera wiped out French Malbec in the 1860s, and what was replanted afterwards was grafted onto American rootstock. Argentina kept its own material as it was, on its own roots, so Lurton went to the one place where Malbec from before that break still stood.

He found it at Las Compuertas, in Luján de Cuyo, a vineyard planted in 1929. Today the estate covers forty-seven hectares split between those parcels and smaller holdings in Paraje Altamira, in the Uco Valley.

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