Winemaker Notes
Gorgeous nose of berries and flavors of vanilla, spice, graphite and mocha. Great acidity and minerality that drive the finish to remarkable lengths. Excellent with any kind of red meat meals with hearty sauces.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Dense, but incredibly pure and driven, with graphite, mineral and red licorice notes driving the core of raspberry and boysenberry ganache. Long and superfresh on the finish. Rich and refined. This drinks like a Burgundy, but it's distinctly Malbec. Drink now through 2018.
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Wine & Spirits
At first, this wine shows little beyond oak and the maturity of the fruit. With time in the glass, smoked meat and black cherry aromas emerge, while the structure remains hard. Made from malbec vines planted in the mid-1950s on alluvial soils, this is a great wine from Patagonia that needs at least another three or four years in the bottle to show its full potential.
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Wine Enthusiast
As per usual, this Patagonian beauty ranks high on our scale of classy Malbecs. It’s well-oaked, which results in hickory and campfire aromas alongside dark berries and mineral. The palate is ripe and meaty, with blackberry and coffee flavors. Some vanilla and coconut on the finish is a reminder of the fine oak treatment this wine receives. Fine acidity and tannic structure only help it to achieve its goal.
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.
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