Most of the Terrazas vineyards are in the highest part of Mendoza province, all above 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) with cooler days and cold nights. This means the wine style majors on fruit character, natural freshness and elegance coming to the fore within a sound structure. The terroir particularly suits the Malbec grape, which was brought from Bordeaux 160 years ago and found a new home here in Mendoza. As for the Terrazas white wines, in addition to the fresh, fruity style of our Mendoza Chardonnay, there is also the unique Torrontes grape, only found in Argentina. We cultivate it in its ideal terroir, the Cafayate Valley, 1,800 meters up in the northern province of Salta. There is a huge variation in annual temperatures here, leading to intense, elegant fruit flavours.

We are different from Bordeaux, and from all the other well-known Cabernet Sauvignon regions. Indeed, Mendoza is probably one of the very few significant areas for Cabernet with a continental climate. Here, the cooling oceanic influence found in other renowned regions like Bordeaux, Napa, Margaret River, Chile and so on is replaced by the effect of altitude. This enables us to produce Cabernet Sauvignon wines of great potential displaying more ripe, dark lively fruits, rather than the classic, green-pepper style of Bordeaux.

The terroir in Mendoza is very singular. It’s a unique combination of high-altitude desert climate with diverse sedimentary soils produced by the erosion of the Andes Mountains. The terroir is entirely continental with no oceanic influence. The days are warm and dry, the nights are cold and the fruit ripens slowly. As the vineyards lie in the Andean foothills, the higher you move up the slope, the colder the weather becomes, allowing you to grow each grape type at the right altitude for maximum varietal expression.

Most of the Terrazas vineyards are in the highest part of Mendoza province, all above 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) with cooler days and cold nights. This means the wine style majors on fruit character, natural freshness and elegance coming to the fore within a sound structure. The terroir particularly suits the Malbec grape, which was brought from Bordeaux 160 years ago and found a new home here in Mendoza. As for the Terrazas white wines, in addition to the fresh, fruity style of our Mendoza Chardonnay, there is also the unique Torrontes grape, only found in Argentina. We cultivate it in its ideal terroir, the Cafayate Valley, 1,800 meters up in the northern province of Salta. There is a huge variation in annual temperatures here, leading to intense, elegant fruit flavours.