Although El Enemigo is a relatively young Argentine estate established in 2008, its founders are anything but inexperienced. The winemaker Alejandro Vigil is a soil expert who has been the chief winemaker of Bodega Catena Zapata for more than 17 years and his partner Adrianna Catena, who is a historian, is Nicolas Catena’s youngest daughter, whose dream is to continue her family winery Catena Zapata’s legacy in the future. Whether it’s the vineyards of Gualtallary — which we refer to as Mendoza’s Montrachet — in Valle de Uco or the lower sections of Agrelo, Alejandro always manages to produce exceptional wines that encapsulate Mendoza’s diverse soils, terroirs, microclimates and grape types.
James Suckling, October 2018

Luis Gutiérrez, November 2022

One of the finest and more regular wines from Argentina, the 2018 Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard is austere and shows restraint, with great freshness and gobsmacking balance and complexity, but in the context of the 2019 and 2020 vintages that I also tasted next to it, it comes thorough as slightly less refined but still with 13.5% alcohol and with very good parameters of acidity and freshness. It has a medium-bodied palate and a rare combination of power and elegance, with very fine, chalky tannins. It's very long and has a salty and tasty finish. It matured in centenary oak foudres for 15 months. 9,000 bottles were filled in July 2019.