In the center of the world's premier location for Malbec, Lujan De Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, Enrique Foster has built a state-of-the-art gravity-flow winery surrounded by 80-year old vines.

Enrique Foster’s goal is to produce the best Malbec in Argentina and the world. No expense has been spared, from the latest vineyard management techniques to the stainless steel equipment and the new French oak barrels in the underground cellars. At each stage of winemaking, cranes and a multi-level freight elevator combine to move the wine without pumping, thus avoiding its detrimental effects on wine.

The Enrique Foster winery is the first purpose-built winery in the world to produce only Malbec varietals by gravity flow. Intrigued by the concept of gravity flow, the firm’s owners traveled to California to study several winery construction projects. There, they became convinced that the extra cost of a gravity flow facility would be more than offset by the superior quality of the wine resulting from the elimination of pumping the wine from each stage to the next.

Enrique Foster’s two vineyards are located in what is generally acknowledged to be the world's best terrain for the Malbec grape, Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. The vineyards sit at an elevation of 3,000 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 the winery is located, consists of 30 acres of ungrafted, pre-phylloxera vines planted in 1919. The second vineyard is located in Las Compuertas, with 20 acres of vines planted in 1966.