Winemaker Notes
Nice raspberry fruit, with lush smoke and a lingering graphite edge to the finish. Fruit takes an encore on the finish. Perfect for red meat courses cooked any style.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
A gentle and juicy malbec, this is soft with deep red fruit flavors and a creamy, enveloping texture. Lisa is 90 percent malbec, one third of it estate grown.
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Wine Spectator
Dark and ripe, but fresh and racy, with a streak of Damson plum moving through blackberry and boysenberry fruit, backed by lingering sweet spice, tobacco and graphite notes on the finish. Malbec, Merlot & Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2012.
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.
GZT9385615C_2009 Item# 113272