Sixth generation Bordelaise winegrower Hervé Fabre picked up his entire family and moved to Lujan de Cuyo, Argentina in 1990. His plan was not to buy vacant valley floor land in both Mendoza and Patagonia and plant (as many other growers did during the "land boom")...but to only buy healthy, dry farmed, old vines plots of Malbec at elevation. Thirty years later, Hervé's plan has paid off in a big way, with most prominent wine writers in agreement that Fabre has the best collection of old-vines sites of any Mendozan or Patagonian grower, and that Hervé's rich, concentrated, expressive Malbec might the region's best in the under-$20 price range. We wouldn't hesitate to put this on the table next to great Cahors or Bordeaux of real pedigree, because it IS that good!