Argentina

Mendoza

1 château distributed by the Compagnie Médocaine des Grands Crus.

The châteaux

Vintage	Score	Vintage character
2023	92	October frost reduced the harvest: an uneven vintage, but superb on the parcels spared.
2022	94	Temperatures within Mendoza's norms but rainfall well above average — 374 mm at Las Compuertas against a 200 mm average — and coulure that thinned the crop; the late-season weather that set in by mid-February carried ripening through to harvest.
2021	96	A cool, wet season, with summer rainfall twice that of the previous vintage, gave wines of great aromatic complexity, carried by their natural freshness.
2020	91	Unusual March rains forced an early harvest: lighter wines, carried by fruit.
2019	93	Spring rains, three early-summer heat waves, then dry weather with wide diurnal swings gave ripe, powerful wines with even ripening.
2018	95	The wide diurnal temperature swing of a hot, dry season gave deep, perfectly balanced wines.
2017	96	A dry, long season gave the great Andean vintage: concentration without the slightest heaviness.
2016	88	El Niño rains diluted the harvest: lighter wines, to be drunk young.
2015	94	A steady season gave grandiose Malbecs, ripe without losing any of their high-altitude freshness.
2009	92	A hot summer gave an early harvest: ripe, generous wines, now at their peak.