Winemaker Notes
Ruby red color, with bluish tones. Open varietal aroma with marked spicy notes. Unctuous, with soft and mature tannins. Having an intense finish, it leaves an aftertaste of roasted red peppers with delicate raisin notes.
Don Juan Nahuel is named after Gustavo Santaollalla's son.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2007 Don Juan Nahuel Malbec spent 20 months in French oak. It offers up an already complex bouquet of floral, underbrush, and black fruit aromas leading to a savory, structured, full-flavored wine with enough structure and balance to drink well through 2019, if not longer.
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Wine & Spirits
In addition to malbec's classic cherry and violet aromas, this wine offers an intriquing earthy, mineral side that sets it apart. It's substantial, with a powerful grip to the tannins and a structure built for steak.
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.
CVF105213_2007 Item# 115730