Product Description
Cuvelier Los Andes
Cuvelier Los Andes is the new project of the Cuvelier family in Argentina that was started in 1999 as part of the Clos de los Siete Group. The idea is to create the Argentinean cousin of Chateau Léoville-Poyferré, a 2nd classified growth in St Julien (Bordeaux) that the Cuvelier family has owned since the early 1900’s.
Cuvelier Los Andes is a 70 hectares (170 acres) estate base in Valle de Uco, Mendoza, at the foothills of the Andes producing 2 ranges of premiums and super premiums red wines.
The top range wine is called Cuvelier Los Andes Grand Vin.
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate 92+ Points
“The 2007 Gran Vin is a blend of 73% Malbec, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 8% Merlot aged in French oak for 18 months. Saturated purple in color, it offers up an alluring bouquet of smoke, incense, Asian spices, and black cherry, with a hint of chocolate in the background. Full-bodied, layered, and opulent, the wine has superb depth of flavor, excellent integration of oak, tannin, and acidity, and a lengthy, fruit-filled finish. Dive it 4-6 years more bottle age and drink it from 2014 to 2027. Bodega Cuvelier Los Andes, owned by Bertrand and Jean-Guy Cuvelier, (who own Ch Leoville-Proyfere) is another consulting client of the peripatetic Michel Rolland.