2022 Pacheco Pereda `Estirpe` Organic Fairtrade Cabernet Franc

In 2010 Pacheco Pereda was founded in Mendoza by Alejandro Bulgheroni with the aim of developing sustainable viticulture in Argentina. This vision has resulted in one of Argentina’s largest organic-certified vineyard holdings.  Their vineyards are in the Luján de Cuyo region planted between 980 and 1200 metres above sea level.  The team at Pacheco Pereda carried out a vast soil-mapping exercise across the vineyards by digging five hundred soil pits. Their findings resulted in the vineyards being split into 74 individual parcels, to which grape varieties were matched and different planting densities implemented accordingly. Organic certification followed, together with the introduction of natural corridors through the vineyards to improve biodiversity. The winery is also part of the initiative ‘4 per 1000’, launched at the COP21 climate change conference, which commits to promoting and implementing healthy soils that can trap carbon and reduce its impact on climate change.  'Estirpe' is the name of parcel 31 situated high up at 1,200 metres above sea level.