Cheval des Andes 2021

✦ The Landscape & Terroir
The wine is born at the foot of the Andes, where high altitude sunlight gives ripeness and cold nights preserve tension, colour and aromatic lift. In Mendoza, Argentina, high-altitude Andean alluvial soils give the wine its frame, depth and sense of place.

✦ The Wine & Varieties
2021 Cheval des Andes is made from Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. For Hong Kong collectors new to European fine wine, this is a way to understand place through structure: fruit gives pleasure, but terroir gives the wine its shape and memory.

✦ Winemaking Philosophy
The wine reflects joint heritage of Bordeaux and Mendoza. The cellar work is not about making the loudest wine, but about preserving proportion, texture and the identity of the vineyard. Ageing: French oak ageing.

✦ Taste Profile
Expect dark fruit, refined tannins, cedar spice and a long structured finish that opens slowly in the glass. It is a wine to serve with care, open with time and enjoy as it moves from fruit toward detail.

✦ Why It Matters
2021 Cheval des Andes matters because it carries Andean brightness with Bordeaux discipline. It belongs in a cellar not only as a luxury bottle, but as a reference point for how origin, vintage and human judgement can meet in one glass.

✦ Key Facts
Grapes: Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon
Region: Mendoza, Argentina
Soil: high-altitude Andean alluvial soils
Farming method: joint heritage of Bordeaux and Mendoza
Ageing: French oak ageing
Serving temperature: 16–18°C
Ageing potential: 10–20 years