FRANCE • Founded in 1832, a Premier Grand Cru   Classé “A”. • One of two classified First Great Growths   “A” in Saint Émilion, France. • Auction prices match Médoc “First Growths”.   One bottle of 1947 vintage auctioned for   US$109,324 at Christies.     ARGENTINA • Top ranked Malbec from Argentina over   past 10 years (1994 -2004, Wine Spectator   Top 100), Top 20 Global Value Vintner    (Wine Spectator 2005). • Eighteen 90+pt, or 5 Star, rankings: Wine   Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, Decanter. • Backed by 45 years of Argentina winemaking   and pioneering work in high elevation   vineyards.     The joint venture between Cheval Blanc and Terrazas de los Andes, notably the first ever for Cheval Blanc, originated as Director Pierre Lurton sought out a special international terroir in which to apply the storied blending heritage of the French château. Lurton was intrigued by the notion of unearthing a connection with the Saint Èmilion past: Malbec, decimated by phylloxera in the 1860s from its position as the one of the most important varieties in Saint Émilion and Pomerol, had since been reincarnated in ungrafted form in Argentina, producing some of the world’s best Malbecs in recent years. Along with the Malbec renaissance in Argentina emerged an ambitious vision to forge a new path in international winemaking, Cheval Blanc´s reconnection with its past was consummated in 1999 as Pierre Lurton visited a select parcel of the most treasured high elevation terroir in Argentina: Terrazas de los Andes `76 year old Las Compuertas Vineyard, found in Vistalba, Mendoza.