Winemaker Notes
Intense garnet red. Intense and complex aromas. Its captivating spicy profile subtly integrates with fresh mushrooms and truffle aromas. Balanced notes of leather and vanilla provide complexity to this great Cabernet Sauvignon. Palate is concentrated and elegant. Reveals ripe fruit notes and a subtle mentholated flavor. Its great volume, balanced acidity and soft tannins enhance the elegance of this wine.
Pair with osso buco with mushrooms and almond sauce, homemade pasta filled with smoked deer and red berry clafoutis.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Focused and powerful with beautiful density and power. Full-bodied, dense and tight. It opens and goes long. Rich style. Drink or hold.
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Wine Spectator
Dense, rich and full of muscular dark plum, currant and black olive flavors that are supported by robust tannins. Dark chocolate and smoky notes linger on the finish, with accents of hot stone. Complex, and needs a bit of time. Best from 2020 through 2024.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2013 Single Vineyard Los Aromos Cabernet Sauvignon is consistent with the line marked by the 2010 with a classical profile combining elegance and power and judicious use of oak. The palate revealed fine tannins, good acidity (but could do with a little more), harmonious and with a fresh, varietal finish.
At the end of the 1950s, the famous French Champagne house, Moët & Chandon, realized there was an enormous potential for growth in South America. They sent their wine analyst, Renaud Poirier, to study the possibility of expansion. Monsieur Poirier finally proved that Luján de Cuyo, a region within the province of Mendoza, was the best place for the birth of fine wines. In 1960, Chandon Argentina was established, the first subsidiary of Moët & Chandon outside France.
To make the Terrazas de los Andes wines, Chandon Argentina took the initiative to restore this building, located in the heart of Perdriel and at the foot of the imposing Cordón del Plata (a section of the Andes Mountain Range).
In the past, Chandon Argentina made only sparkling and generic still wines, however at the beginning of the '90s fueled by a political system more orientated towards an international market, a varietal wines project was born, to which Terrazas has now become the reality. Situated in Perdriel there is an old Spanish style winery that was used by Pedro Domecq to create his brandy. Renaud Poirier asked Domecq if he could use his equipment to make the first experimental vintages, between 1957 and 1959. Thirty years later Terrazas de los Andes was born, a tributary of Chandon Argentina dedicated exclusively to the production of varietal wines.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
By far the largest and best-known winemaking province in Argentina, Mendoza is responsible for over 70% of the country’s enological output. Set in the eastern foothills of the Andes Mountains, the climate is dry and continental, presenting relatively few challenges for viticulturists during the growing season. Mendoza, divided into several distinctive sub-regions, including Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley, is the source of some of the country’s finest wines.
For many wine lovers, Mendoza is practically synonymous with Malbec. Originally a Bordelaise variety brought to Argentina by the French in the mid-1800s, here it found success and renown that it never knew in its homeland where a finicky climate gives mixed results. Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot and Pinot Noir are all widely planted here as well (and sometimes even blended with each other or Malbec). Mendoza's main white varieties include Chardonnay, Torrontés, Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon.