Harvest analysis
The 2025/2026 season was significantly cooler than the year before. The winter of 2025 was warmer and drier than usual, resulting in little rainfall and snowfall in the Andes Mountains. Despite this, budbreak in the spring of 2025 fell within the same timeframe as in the previous four years. October was also within normal parameters […]
2026 Descorchados Results for Fabre Montmayou
The Descorchados Guide is today one of the most relevant wine publications in South America. It’s edited by the most renowned Chilean wine writer Patricio Tapia, who first published Descorchados in 1999 in Chile with the intention of portraying the energy of change that was brewing in the neighbouring country, in terms of new grape […]
2025 Gold, 97 points and shortlisted for Red Winemaker of the Year.
We have our 2025 awards and it’s been another great year! Highlights include a wonderful 95 points from the International Wine Challenge for our Fabre Montmayou Reserva Cabernet Franc 2024, and 97 points, Major Vistalba for Grand Vin 2022 from Descorchados. We are also incredibly proud as Hervé has been shortlisted for Red Winemaker of […]
2024 Awards & Accolades
Every year Fabre Montmayou enters some of the world’s leading wine competitions and our wines are tasted and judged by many leading critics. We now have time to take a breath and recap all our success so far in 2024. We have achieved new scores and medals from Descorchados, Tim Atkin MW, James Suckling, the […]
2023 Wine Awards
The wine awards season is in full flow and we have been blessed once again with some great results so far this year. Our wines have been featured in Tim Atkin’s 2023 Argentina Special Report, they have been reviewed and scored by James Suckling, as well as gaining medals from both the International Wine Challenge […]
Descorchados 2023
It’s that time of year when the new Descorchados scores come out and look how well we have done! The full tasting notes will be published in the new year. Fabre Montmayou Grand Vin 2019 96 points RANKED BEST VISTALBA Fabre Montmayou Gran Reserva Malbec 2020 94 points RANKED BEST VISTALBA Fabre Montmayou […]
Vinous.com 2022, Joaquín Hidalgo
The prestigious Vinous.com released its Argentina 2022 scores last month and we are once again very pleased with our results. The wines were tasted in September and scored by leading critic Joaquin Hidalgo, whose full report was published on Vinous.com. The scores accompanied the article: Argentina: Making It Work with Resilience and Stylistic Ingenuity. The […]
Fabre Montmayou Malbec Reserva makes Top 100 Best Buys of 2022
We are proud to share the news that our Fabre Montmayou Malbec Reserva 2021 has been named in the Wine & Spirits Top 100 Best Buys of 2022. The wine was awarded 91 points: “Hervé Joyaux Fabre, born into a negotiant family in Bordeaux, came to Mendoza in search of vineyards in the 1990s. A […]
Fabre Montmayou travels to Europe
We had a busy few weeks in September and October with Fabre Montmayou taking part in tastings with some of our European importers. In September we were in Antwerp with Global Wineries for their 18th Wine Village. We were there with other wineries from all over the world, and it was the first time since […]
Tim Atkin review in Decanter, October 2022
Did anyone spot Hervé in the October issue of Decanter? He was mentioned in a great article by Tim Atkin MW on the french influence in Argentina. Tim also rated our Fabre Montmayou Cabernet Franc 2019 with 93 points! Subscribers to Decanter can read the article here in full. Fabre Montmayou Cabernet Franc Reserva 2019 […]