A Malbec dominant blend (generally around 48%) supplemented by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc.

Each variety is fermented independently. After blending, the wine is matured for 15 months in French oak barrels, 50% new and 50% second use barrels.

Achaval Ferrer has one single passion: to craft world-class, terroir-driven red wines from Argentina. They produce the most critically acclaimed Malbecs from Mendoza, sourced from single vineyards with low yielding, old ungrafted vines.

Quimera is architecture and design; it is a unique warm blend that was conceived at the vineyard. Every year Santiago and Roberto look for the meaning within the earth in the search for the impossible wine, making it unique year after year. This results in a wine with deep shades, aromas that range from stony and earthy, of dark fruits to delicate accents of rosemary, open mouthed, almost feminine and deliciously sour. Quimera is heuristic; it is personal discovery and the search of perfection.

"An enticingly complex rendition with sweet tobacco, blueberries, cedar, sesame, liquorice and violets. Broad, bright and juicy on the palate, showing dense but polished tannins and fine-tuned minerality and savouriness. Very precise. Drinkable now, but much better after 2024."
95 points. James Suckling, jamessuckling.com (April 2022)