Escorihuela Gascón

The surname on the first wall

The first act here was a founding, not a blend. Miguel Escorihuela Gascón, winemaker at Escorihuela Gascón in Godoy Cruz, set the house in place in 1884, joining his Spanish surname to an Argentine address that still carries it. At this estate, lineage begins with that fixed point: name, place, date, house. The winery keeps its historic facade from that original building while working as a modern production facility, so the visitor meets the past before reaching the present cellar. The role attributed to Miguel Escorihuela Gascón is compact, and the house does not turn it into a longer biography. He is the founder, and the mark is the house itself. In wine, that can be enough. The cellar’s identity rests on the decision to establish a Mendoza house in Godoy Cruz under a family name, then allow later work, later fruit, and later rooms to gather around it. The result is not a romantic footnote. It is the governing line.

Malbec held inside a larger cellar

The program works at a premium scale, with more than 1,000 hectares of vineyards across multiple regions and a portfolio that includes Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Sauvignon Blanc. The house is associated with Argentina’s first pure varietal Malbec, a claim that matters here because it ties a national grape to a named cellar rather than to a general regional story. The wines include still red, still white, and sparkling work, so the production floor has to hold more than one rhythm: extraction for reds, freshness for whites, and the separate discipline required when bubbles enter the cellar. The stated production philosophy is conventional, and the scale is not small. That changes the craft. The hand is not only at the vat or the barrel; it is in the systems that keep fruit from multiple vineyard settings legible once it reaches Godoy Cruz.

Old facade, working cellar

The room carries the contrast plainly. A preserved historic front and original train station architecture frame a facility built for contemporary winemaking, so the estate reads as both archive and workplace. The setting extends beyond the cellar: terrace areas, a vineyard context, and a polo field surrounded by vines at Agrelo give the house more than one surface. Guided tastings, barrel room tours, and vineyard tours move through that arrangement without needing to flatten it into a museum piece. Conversation can hold in the tasting room. The cellar still has the scale of a working producer.

A house measured by its first decision

Escorihuela Gascón’s founder’s surname remains on a winery established in Godoy Cruz in 1884. The place still asks to be read through Miguel Escorihuela Gascón, Malbec, and the original facade.