Gabriel Bloise

Coming Up

Today, Gabriel is winemaker of Chakana Winery. The role sits with a style that values restraint and intention, letting the wine’s identity emerge without excess interference. The approach is measured and disciplined, with the grape kept as the clearest voice in the glass.

Where They Are Now

At Chakana Winery, Bloise works as winemaker, with Premium Malbec wines as the central craft note attached to his role. His own words make the method clear: “In Argentina, there are a thousand things that we are allowed to add to a wine. We have challenged ourselves to go without, to make wine with the minimum intervention and without the addition of sulphur.” The logic is subtraction rather than accumulation, with the cellar defined by what is left out as much as by what is kept in. That idea of purity and authenticity runs through his work at Chakana Winery in Luján de Cuyo. Minimum intervention is treated as a deliberate line of practice, not a stylistic flourish, with the fruit asked to carry the wine’s shape on its own.

Signature

Gabriel's signature wines include 4 Gatos Locos Cabernet Sauvignon Gualtallary. The wine sits within Bloise’s restrained cellar thinking, with the emphasis on precision and identity rather than effect. It reads as specific to its place and intent.

In Their Words “In Argentina, there are a thousand things that we are allowed to add to a wine. We have challenged ourselves to go without, to make wine with the minimum intervention and without the addition of sulphur.” “In our vision, we think that wine should be made only with grapes.”