Winemaker Notes
Excellent color, good expression of its variety with a mix of red and black fruits. Spices like clove and white pepper in the nose.
Good structure with ripe tannins perfectly combined with the oak.
Long and persistent at the palate
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Chocolate and charcoal aromas form a dark and masculine greeting. There's also coffee and an herbal note to the nose. Lush but not heavy, tannic or plodding, with powerful black fruit and herbal flavors. Runs deep and long on the finish
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Malbec Reserva spent 12 months in seasoned French and American oak. It sports an alluring nose of balsam wood, smoke, spice box, floral notes, and black cherry. In the glass it opens to display excellent volume, balance, and length as well as enough structure to evolve for another 1-2 years. It will be at its best from 2013 to 2020.
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.
AMR34453_2010 Item# 125446