Bodega Monteviejo

Bodega Monteviejo is the result of an adventure that began in 1998 when oenologist Michel Rolland and Jean-Michel Arcaute decided to embark on an ambitious wine-growing project. Argentina offers both the space and the opportunity to plant without reserve in order to achieve a promising result: a great wine from good terroir at attractive prices... They had enough arguments to bring together seven investors, all winegrowers (Catherine Péré-Vergé, owner of Château Montviel in Pomerol, Laurent Dassault, owner in Saint-Emilion, Bertrand Otto, representative of La Compagnie Vinicole E. Rotschild, and Bertrand Cuvelier) around a beautiful winegrowing project in the province of Mendoza. Bodega Monteviejo will be created in Vistaflores, an 847-hectare vineyard estate.

Divided into seven bodegas, the estate has been named Le Clos de los Siete. The goal: to bring out the best in this beautiful terroir, worthy of the world's greatest red wine terroirs. To achieve this, Michel Rolland has left nothing to chance. The vineyard is entirely vertical trellised with a density of 5,500 vines per hectare, the historical density of the old Malbec vines that made this variety famous. The wine from Bodega Monteviejo , owned by the Péré-Vergé family, is made exclusively from this Malbec. The grapes are harvested by hand, sorted by bunch, destemmed, and sorted again. After vinification, the wines from Bodega Monteviejo are aged in French oak barrels for 16 months, resulting in a wine of astonishing quality.