Winemaker Notes
Intense deep violet color; clean aromas of black, acid, forest berries and pencil lead, with graphite, black cherry, mocha and spice notes. Up to now, it is probably the "best" and one of the most structured versions of our icon Malbec, keeping intact its elegance, finesse and multilayered expression.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2005 Malbec Seleccion de Bodega received 24 months in new French oak. It has a splendid nose of pain grille, pencil lead, plum, black cherry, and earth notes. This is followed by an opulent, rich wine with gobs of flavor, incipient complexity and a 45-second finish. This wine will develop for another 6-8 years with prime drinking from 2015 to 2035.
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Wine & Spirits
From the oldest Dona Paula vineyards in Ugarteche, in the heights of Mendoza, this is dense and ripe, black in its fruit expression, with hints of pencil lead and violets. A robust Malbec for dinner.
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.
BTO97411_2005 Item# 97411