Winemaker Notes
Their standard Malbec bottling, Durigutti's Malbec "Clásico" representswhat the brothers do best-combine elegance with a certain blue-collarrusticity. While this is in many ways due to the two differingbackgrounds the brothers bring to the table, it is also largely due to thefruit. High altitude fruit from La Consulta adds structure, depth, andpower, while bright fruit from Vistalba adds brightness and suppletexture.
Lush nose laced with black-berry and plum fruit. Soft yet focused on thepalate, with additional flavors of strawberry and wild herbs. Mediumtannins and balanced acidity. A terrific everyday drinker!
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Fragrant bouquet of Asian spices, floral notes, and black cherry, supple, sweet, some structure.
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Wine Spectator
A lush, toasty style, with lots of cocoa and roasted vanilla up front, followed by dark, well-layered fig, boysenberry and mulled currant fruit flavors. The long finish lets all the fruit hang nicely, with an underlying graphite hint supporting it all. Drink now through 2011.
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.