El Montañista Corte de Blancas 2024 kerner and Provençal herbs

and Provençal herbs

When Benoit Meyer inherited the 500 year old Chateau in the 1990s

named for the only village where it grows in Achean Greece

A web of fine-grained tannins adds structure and poise as the 2023 finishes with outstanding length and energy

olives and croquetas

El Montañista Corte de Blancas 2024 kerner and Provençal herbsFrom Mendoza, where something like 95% of Argentinas wine comes, drive west. That means a lot of driving up towards the Andes, through ever drier valleys at higher elevation, until at 1500 meters youre in the Calingasta valley, where rain rarely falls and the Rio de los Patos only really flows when the snow melts in the andes, when it briefly becomes a wide river and gives irrigation canals water for the narrow strip of agriculture in Calingasta.