Winemaker Notes
Deep red color with violet tones. Very intense bouquet with notes of
sappy cherry, currant, and baking spice. More red fruits fill the palate and the wine finishes with impeccable balance and silky tannins.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2011 Malbec Reserva comes from vines around 40 years of age in Lujan de Cuyo and Las Compuertas, and around 40% sees aging in French oak for 12 months. It has a ripe, pretty bouquet of blueberry and violet aromas that are simple but pure. The palate is medium-bodied with dry tannins with earthy tones. It is very classic style, elegant with a dry, black pepper-tinged finish.
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.
AIW11RM_2011 Item# 123328