2020 Cepas Single Vineyard Cabernet Franc, Penedo Borges, Mendoza

"...an unexpected variety from a traditional region: Cepas, a single-vineyard Cabernet Franc from Mendoza, also crafted by Penedo Borges, with fleshy black fruit lifted by a refreshing mintiness and pepperiness."
MoneyWeek, April 2024

"The 2020 Penedo Borges Cepas Cabernet Franc shows just how well Cab Franc thrives in the Malbec country of Mendoza, Argentina. With dense, rich red and dark fruit and a sweet-then-savoury finish, it's disarmingly appealing and, well, it's my favourite wine of the offer. It just packs in so much pleasure for such a paltry price."
Jonathan Ray, The Spectator

As much as you love your Argentine malbecs, you must try a much rarer thing: Mendozan cabernet franc. Deeply coloured, with classic cab franc herbaceous notes lifting bright, black-berry fruit. Perfumed with a note of fresh mint and a hint of sweet, spicy oak. Richness, weight and power come through on the palate, yet with a minty, leafy lift and intensity of fruit.