Doghobble Wine Farm is proud to announce a first for our farm: an exclusive import partnership with Un Buen Año, S.A. (UBA), an estate producer in the El Cepidillo area of the Valle de Uco, Mendoza, Argentina, one of the world’s most celebrated high-altitude wine regions. Beginning this fall, Doghobble will offer a curated selection of UBA’s estate Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. The wines will be imported, finished, and bottled by us in Dahlonega, Georgia, under our Georgia Farm Winery license.
This is not a distribution deal. It is a partnership between two wine families who share a common philosophy: that great wine is an expression of place, cultivated with patience, grown with integrity, and shared with pride. Our customers and Wine Club members will be among the first in the American Southeast to taste these wines.
“We have spent decades learning the El Cepidillo terroir, the altitude, the diurnal swings, the volcanic soils. When we met the Doghobble team, we recognized something rare: a winery that understands wine is not made in the cellar, it is made in the vineyard. We are honored to bring our wines to Georgia.”
Guillermo Perezcalva, Owner, Un Buen Año, S.A., Valle de Uco, Mendoza
Malbec: A World-Class Grape, Perfectly at Home in the Andes
Few grapes have reinvented themselves as dramatically as Malbec. Originally from the Côt region of Cahors, France, Malbec arrived in Argentina in 1853, brought by French agronomist Michel Aimé Pouget at the invitation of the Argentine government. The grape found in Mendoza’s high desert what it could never quite claim in Europe: ideal conditions. The result was a transformation. The Argentine Malbec that emerged from those volcanic, alluvial soils, deep-fruited, structured, velvety, and age-worthy, is now recognized by the world’s leading sommeliers, critics, and collectors as one of the genuinely great red wines of the modern era.
The Valle de Uco, located south of the city of Mendoza and stretching toward the Andes foothills, is where Argentina’s finest Malbec is grown. Vineyards in the Uco Valley are planted at elevations ranging from 3,000 to over 5,000 feet above sea level. The altitude delivers intense ultraviolet radiation, which concentrates color and polyphenols in the grape skins. It also brings enormous day-to-night temperature swings, as much as 40°F, which preserve natural acidity and aromatic complexity. The result is Malbec of uncommon depth and elegance: dark fruit, violet florals, fine-grained tannins, and a minerality that speaks directly to its volcanic and limestone soils.
The El Cepidillo area within Valle de Uco, where Un Buen Año’s estate vineyards are planted, is recognized among Argentine viticulturalists for particularly complex, well-drained soils and a microclimate that produces wines of exceptional structure and longevity. UBA’s vineyards are farmed with a precision and restraint that mirrors our own philosophy at Doghobble: let the land speak.
“We grow Norton, Chambourcin, Catawba, grapes that belong to the North Georgia mountains. That commitment to native terroir is exactly what drew us to Un Buen Año. Guillermo’s wines do not try to be Bordeaux. They are unambiguously, unapologetically Andean. That kind of authenticity is rare, and our customers deserve it.”
Sam Zamarripa, Founder, Doghobble Wine Farm
What This Means for Our Wine Club Members
Doghobble’s core mission, growing American varietals that belong to North Georgia and producing honest wines from honest farming, does not change with this alliance. What changes is the conversation we can now offer our guests and Wine Club members. Alongside our estate Nortons, Chambourcins, and Muscadines, we will offer a curated selection of world-class Argentine Malbec, imported by us, selected by our winemaking team in collaboration with Guillermo’s team at El Cepidillo, and finished and bottled in Dahlonega, Georgia.
Wine Club members will receive priority access and exclusive allocation of UBA imports as part of their membership benefits. This is a wine you will not find at a big box retailer. It comes to you directly, through a relationship built on mutual respect between two wine families on opposite ends of the hemisphere.
The first shipment is expected to arrive at Doghobble Wine Farm in late summer or early fall 2026. We cannot wait to pour it for you.
