2022 El Enemigo "Gran Enemigo - Gualtallary" Cabernet Franc Mendoza
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99
Vinous
Review Date: 08/2025The 2022 Cabernet Franc Gran Enemigo Gualtallary includes 15% Malbec. This fermented with 40% whole bunches, harvested in stages across 1.5 months and aged for 15 months in concrete. Intensely complex, it opens with aromas of mountain herbs—huacatay and heterotheca—along with redcurrant, violet and red fruit. This is a dry, vibrant and fruit-driven expression. It offers chalk, airy concentration, juicy texture and a core of ash. This is weightless, stretching the flavor with crystalline definition. It is a site-driven Cabernet Franc that is shaped by its terroir and polished by the vintage. The 2022 is magic. (JH)
Price: $109.99
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Professional Reviews
98
James Suckling
Review Date: 03/2025
This pure cabernet franc has notes of pepper, blue fruit and violets. It’s also distinctly herbal with hints of sage and dill. The well-constructed palate is incisive, saline and delicate, showing marginal coolness and finely etched blue fruit. This wine has a unique varietal profile, achieving something that could only come from this place. (JGA)
96
Descorchados
Review Date: 01/2025
A savage example of Gualtallary, nearly 1,500 meters up in the northern Uco Valley. This is rich in herbal tones, as is dictated by the dominant variety (cabernet franc), especially if you consider that at this altitude, with the cool Andean conditions, that side is exacerbated. This is a perfumed and juicy red with savage tannins, as is usual in this zone, and the acidity corresponds to a mountain wine. This is 85% cabernet franc, and the rest is malbec, all aged in foudres for 15 months.
94
Tim Atkin
Review Date: 06/2025
A little on the firm side for a Gran Enemigo red - maybe it’s just the relative youth of the wine
- this is a chewy, Mediterranean herb-scented assemblage of Cabernet Franc and 15% Malbec
from chalk-preponderant soils. Rosemary and pine needle aromas segue into a palate of fig,
damson and clove supported by muscular tannins.
Product Details
Origin: Argentina
Type/Varietal: Cabernet Franc
Alcohol Content: 13.9%
SKU: #1994219