Winemaker Notes
The 2009 Broquel Malbec is rich and full bodied and bursting with sweet, jammy ripe berry fruit. Long on the palate with well integrated layers of macerated berry, spice, and vanilla-oak. The tannins are firm yet soft on the finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Very purple and saturated, with mushroom, shoe polish, black licorice and smoky, hard berry aromas and flavors. There's big time weight to this dark, roasted Malbec; that and a soft, smooth, coconutty finish. Loaded with flavor but a bit clumsy.
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.
ALL5454746_2009 Item# 111592