Virtual Tasting featuring Cuvelier Los Andes with Special Guest Baptist Cuvelier

"The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler."
-TITUS MACCIUS, 190 BC

In 1998 Bertrand Cuvelier made the happy choice of personally accompanying Michel Rolland in his great Argentine project, which was to become the “Clos de Los Siete “ group.  There are 5 producers in this group and seven investors all French and they have Michele Roland as their consultant.  Diamandes, Cuvelier Los Andes, Monte Viejo, Flechas de los Andes and Roland they have central administration, 850 hectares and Cuvelier Los Andes has 55 hectares of the pie. 

Three years later, Jean-Guy Cuvelier decided to join his cousin Bertrand in the joint aim of building a Winery and producing fine wines worthy of the family tradition. The agreement between Bertrand and Jean-Guy Cuvelier was symbolically signed in the great office of their common ancestor, Henri Cuvelier, in Lille-Haubourdin, in the north of France. Since then, the Winery has been built and each year the vines of Cuvelier Los Andes have contributed 50% of their production to “Clos de Los Siete”, the wine signed by Michel Rolland. The success of this wine is worldwide due to the exceptional value for money it offers.

Everything is estate grown here, their first harvest was 2003 and the first edition of the estates top wine Cuvelier Los Andes Grand Vin was 2004.  I have stated many times that Argentina is one of the best areas in the world for value in the Bordeaux varietal section but today the iconic wines from wineries like Cuvelier Los Andes Grand Vin offer the highest quality available.  Where can you find top level wines from great producers like this for under $50 per bottle?   Argentina!!

For those that would like to attend in person and be part of the studio audience on the day of the event the price is $55 + tax and there are only 10 seats available to our studio audience the day of the tasting.  There will be a few small bites served but this is not a dinner.  For reservations to be part of the studio audience please call 954-523-9463 or e-mail andy@winewatch.com.

Virtual Wine Tasting featuring Cuvelier Los Andes
With Special Guest Baptiste Cuvelier
Wednesday, June 23rd
6:00 PM

Virtual Tasting 5 Pack for Cuvelier Los Andes - Wine Watch
Price: $151.00

2020 Cuvelier de Los Andes Rose
Price: $15.75       Your Price: $13.86

This is the lightest rose Malbec they pick the grapes early and this is the same vineyard as collection Malbec cut the press when the color gets too dark, watermelon very fresh and clean with a bone dry finish.  Finish 35+. Excellent 10,000 bottles

2015 Cuvelier Los Andes Colleccion Blend Mendoza
Price: $24.50       Your Price: $21.56

Following Bordeaux tradition, Colección is our “Second Label” after our Grand Vin.  Colección is similar to Grand Vin but less concentrated and with less ageing potential and is therefore friendlier to drink young. In this blend you can taste the concentration and intensity of a Mendoza wine along with the elegance and finesse of a Bordeaux-blend.

2018 Cuvelier de Los Andes Malbec Valle de Uco Mendoza
Price: $22.50       Your Price: $19.80

Good full and bright red. Aromas of blackcurrant, plum, chocolate and meat. Soft, varietally intense and precise with good energy to the flavors of currant, plum, snuff and land. It ends with sweet tannins, slightly dusty, a note of cherry and solid structure.

50-60,000 bottles per year has a bit of a smoky meaty character complimenting the dark berry fruit blackberry and blue berry.  A big and chewy wine with lots of blackberry and blueberry fruit a bit tannic with violet floral notes and nice complexity for a wine at this price.  Finish 45+. Excellent

2015 Cuvelier de Los Andes Gran Malbec Mendoza
Price: $69.00       Your Price: $60.72

Only 8000-10,000 bottles per year, aged for 28 months in new barrique all French of course, the grapes were planted in 1990 through 2006. This wine has a beautiful bouquet, a blend of malbecs from the three best parcels 5,8 and 1. This wine is a whopping 16.5% alcohol, wow a ton of blackberry and blueberry fruit very well endowed but needs a steak and a few years, the first vintage of grand Malbec the 2005 and there was no 2011. Finish 50 + killer dark chocolate and espresso very big but still has balance. Most Excellent

2016 Cuvelier de Los Andes Grand Vin Mendoza
Price: $39.75       Your Price: $34.98

A red ruby color. At first intense notes of mature red fruits and red berries and opens up nicely to match the typicality of our Grand Vin's elegance and finesse characteristics. Mouth: balanced, elegant and complex. This wine of medium concentration shows impressive length.

Blend: 60% Malbec, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot

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Topic: Virtual Wine Tasting with Cuvelier Los Andes
Time: Jun 23, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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A bit about the Cuvelier family:

The story begins in 1804 when Henri Cuvelier set out to share his great passion for fine wine with his friends of the grand bourgeoisie residing in the rich and dynamic towns of the North of France, (Lille, Boulogne Sur Mer, Arras, Valenciennes…) To this aim, he created H. Cuvelier And Fils, a wine Merchant company whose rapid success continued to develop throughout the 19th century.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Paul Cuvelier and his young brother Albert, anticipating the inevitable rise in « château-bottled wines » to the detriment of the « tailor-made » blends of the wine merchants, decided to purchase top quality estates in the Bordeaux area. They bought Château Le Crock in 1903, then Château Camensac in 1912 and finally the prestigious Château Léoville Poyferré in 1920. It is interesting to note that, in early 1914, Paul Cuvelier had already come to Argentina, to discover the wines of Mendoza. He found them « pleasant to drink » although not adapted to the French taste at that time. He recommended a watchful eye be kept on their development. In 1946, the family group asked Max Cuvelier to create a second Fine Wine Merchant’s based in Bordeaux. It was, as it transpired, essential to have an address in the Pavé des Chartrons if one wished to be part of the Bordeaux wine world. This company has since flourished both in France and around the world.

In 1998 Bertrand Cuvelier made the happy choice of personally accompanying Michel Rolland in his great Argentine project, which was to become the« Clos de Los Siete »group. Three years later, Jean-Guy Cuvelier decided to join his cousin Bertrand in the joint aim of building a Winery and producing fine wines worthy of the family tradition. The agreement between Bertrand and Jean-Guy Cuvelier was symbolically signed in the great office of their common ancestor, Henri Cuvelier, in Lille-Haubourdin, in the north of France. Since then, the Winery has been built and each year the vines of Cuvelier Los Andes have contributed 50% of their production to « Clos de Los Siete », the wine signed by Michel Rolland. The success of this wine is worldwide due to the exceptional value for money it offers.

The 2003 yield has also allowed the production of the first edition of «Cuvelier Los Andes-Coleccion». Then the 2004 harvest saw the arrival of our first edition of «Cuvelier Los Andes – Grand Vin ». With the 2005, Cuvelier Los Andes S.A., aside from its significant contribution to «Clos de Los Siete», can now present three wines, produced with the help and advice of Michel Rolland: Coleccion – Grand Vin – Grand Malbec. The quality of these wines, produced from young wines, is well beyond our original hopes. Will the Argentine cousins rival in the future with the fine wines of Bordeaux. It is for the consumers to decide. Time will tell.

Everything is gravity flow at this state of the art winery.

Tasting line-up at the winery in Mendoza

WINEMAKER | GENERAL MANAGER: Adrián Manchón

Me Hard at Work

The rest of the wines from Cuvelier Los Andes

2016 Cuvelier de Los Andes Cabernet Sauvignon Mendoza
Price: $21.75       Your Price: $19.14

Bright and intense ruby red. Mature and complex with notes of spice, red pepper and good minerality. Complex with a long fine finish. Very nice acidic balance and easy to drink.

2013 Cuvelier de Los Andes Malbec Colleccion Mendoza
Price: $22.50       Your Price: $19.80            Quantity in Stock: 3

They produce 50-60,000 bottles per year of this wine which is the largest production for the winery. On the nost this wine has a bit of a smoky meaty character complimenting the dark berry fruit blackberry and blue berry. A big and chewy wine with lots of blackberry and blueberry fruit, a bit tannic with violet floral notes and nice complexity for a wine at this price. Finish 45+. Excellent

2010 Cuvelier Los Andes Grand Vin Mendoza 3 Liter
Price: $247.50    Your Price: $217.80

2010 Cuvelier Los Andes Grand Vin Mendoza Magnum
Price: $97.50       Your Price: $85.80

A blend of 77% Malbec, 17%Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Malbec and 2% Petit Verdot.  This wine has a deep color. It has a ripe aromas of black cherry and dark chocolate. The palate is powerful and concentrated with elegant fine grained tannins.

2009 Cuvelier Los Andes Grand vin Mendoza Magnum
Price: $120.00    Sale $76.56          Quantity in Stock: 11

A blend of 70% Malbec, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Syrah, 5% merlot and 3% Petite Verdot, a typical Bordeaux blend 19th century style, the Grand Vin contains the best wines from each harvest aged for 18 months in 50% new French Oak barrels.  this wine has a big aroma of smoked meat licorice and an intoxicating array of blackberry blueberry fruit, blackberry fruit, violets, dark chocolate and more very complex, notes of mocha and fig with lots of fruit here coming out as the wine opens.  They produce 300,000 bottles per year and they make 30,000 bottles per year of the Grand Vin.  Finish 45+  Most Excellent

2014 Cuvelier Los Andes Grand vin Mendoza
Price: $39.50    Sale $34.76

2015 Cuvelier Los Andes Grand vin Mendoza
Price: $39.50    Sale $34.76

2016 Cuvelier Los Andes Grand vin Mendoza
Price: $39.50    Sale $34.76

 A red ruby color. At first intense notes of mature red fruits and red berries and opens up nicely to match the typicality of our Grand Vin's elegance and finesse characteristics. Mouth: balanced, elegant and complex. This wine of medium concentration shows impressive length.

A blend of 60% Malbec, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot and 10% Petit Verdot

Cuvelier Los Andes Grand Malbec 2014
Price: $64.50    Sale $56.76

(Tank Sample) Spectacular bouquet blackberry fruit 1 and 1 year in bottle.  Violet very aromatic very big and still has freshness and balance.  Lots of sweet blackberry liqueur like fruit - very seductive

2012 Cuvelier Los Andes El Cuvelier Mendoza
Price: $150.00    Your Price: $132.00          Quantity in Stock: 1

This is one of Argentina's newest iconic wine from one of the memebers of the Clos de la Siete group.  The winemaking staff at Cuvelier taste barrel by barrel to get the best 10 barrels from this outstanding vintage only 3000 bottles for the world!  A blend of Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon, a big wine with 15.5% alcohol this is the first vintage of this iconic wine from Mendoza, a good amount of sweet fruit toasty oak, very complex, with aromas of crushed violets, dark chocolate and more very well endowed with layers of fruit, toasty oak spice and still has a freshness and balance despite its size.  Graphite fresh earth.  Killer+

2013 Cuvelier Los Andes G“El” Cuvelier
Price: $136.50    Sale $120.17

This is the new Iconic wine from Cuvelier Los Andes and they taste barrel by barrel only 3000 bottles or 10 barrels.  A blend of Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon, a big wine with 15.5% alcohol this is the first vintage of this iconic wine from Mendoza, a good amount of sweet fruit toasty oak, very complex, with aromas of crushed violets, dark chocolate and more very well endowed with layers of fruit, toasty oak spice and still has a freshness and balance despite its size.  Graphite and fresh earth notes coming out as this wine opens very big but still balanced.  Killer+