Bodega Calle Alberti 154 Reserva Malbec 2012
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James
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Wine &
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James Suckling
Beautiful aromas and flavors of sour cherries and chocolate powder with hints of citrus peel. Full body, delicate tannins and a fresh. Bright and pretty. Drink or hold.
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Wine & Spirits
Grainy tannins give a sense of breadth and mass to this wine, though the tea-scented, sweet cherry flavors are, in fact, pleasantly restrained. Pour it with game. Best Buy
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Robert
Parker
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Wilfred
Wong
Bodega Calle places great emphasis on gently crafting wines with regional distinction and grand personality. A small-lot, gravity-flow, red wine production studio, Bodega Calle concentrates on varietal wines and premium red blends sourced from viticultural areas throughout Luján de Cuyo and Valle de Uco. Located in the restored Claudio Erice winery, originally built in 1925, Bodega Calle opened in 2001.
All wines are made with the use of gravity, never pumped, to deliver the grapes to the fermentation tanks. Grapes are farmed without the use of herbicides or pesticides, are hand-picked and sorted and vinified using native yeasts. The winery has been inducted to the DOC of Luján de Cuyo, the 5th winery ever to be admitted. Kirk Ermisch is its principal owner and general manager.
Most distinguished and celebrated from Argentina’s Mendoza, Malbec has seen runaway success since the early 2000s. Mendoza’s agreeable, continental climate with hot, dry summers and cold snowy winters allows the perfect conditions for growing outstanding Malbec. This grape is easy to like for its lusty, deep flavors and aromas of blackberry, plum, red cherry, autumn spice and tilled earth. It’s easy to find delicious, fruit-driven, affordable everyday examples and in prices beyond, quite exceptional ones with dense, supple textures that make them capable of aging.