Finca 8 Malbec 2009
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Finca 8's 2009 Malbec was aged in stainless steel with controlled micro-oxygenation. It offers up an inviting nose of spice box, lavender, underbrush, and black cherry. Spicy and structured on the palate, this lengthy effort is densely fruity and rich. Give it 1-2 years to fully unwind and drink it through 2021.
Rating: 90+
The elegantly styled wine displays intense flavors of plums, black cherries, and cassis underlined with malbec’s classic violet flower aromas. Unsweetened cocoa powder and hints of cigar box reflect the subtle oak notes set on a palate wrapped in fine tannins.
By keeping the best blocks of Malbec fruit for Finca 8, and selling the rest to neighboring wineries, proprietor Hernán Fragueiro achieves his goal of producing less than 2,000 cases of a single varietal wine that offers unique style and flavors.
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.