Bodega Enrique Foster

In the center of the world's premier location for Malbec - Lujan De Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, we have built a state-of-the-art gravity-flow winery surrounded by 90-year old vines.

Our objective is nothing less than to produce the best Malbec in Argentina - which is to say the best in the world. No expense has been spared, from the latest vineyard management to the stainless steel equipment and the new French and American oak barrels in...

At present, we have two Malbec vineyards located in what is generally acknowledged to be the world's best terrain for the Malbec grape, Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Our vineyards sit at an elevation of 3000 feet above sea level on the eastern flank of the Andes, with hot days, cold nights and little rain. The first vineyard, in Carrodilla, where we have built our winery, consists of 30 acres of ungrafted, pre-phylloxera vines planted in ...

Complementing the traditional methods of vine care, we have adopted the latest procedures of canopy management and green harvesting to reduce production and thus concentrate the flavors and sweet tannins of our densely planted old Malbec vines (2,200 vines per acre). Following our purchase of the old vineyard, we have more than halved our yield from 11,500 to 4400 lbs per acre vastly improving the quality of our grapes. This effort has been di...

Ours is the first purpose-built winery in the world to produce only Malbec varietals by gravity flow. The ungrafted, pre-phylloxera vineyard we acquired in Lujan de Cuyo had no winery: the grapes were sold to local wineries. To produce the best Malbec possible by controlling each step of the wine-making process, we knew we would have to build our own winery.
Intrigued by the concept of gravity flow, we went to California to study several wine...