Winemaker Notes
Exceptional purple color and old world style. This vintage has big-hearted aroma of plums and cedar. It's lighter in mouth as flavors of lilac, fudge and baked cherry created a hearty wine that's rustic and European in style. This is a full-bodied wine of great structure and concentration and could use more time in bottle to settle down. Its excellent balance between acidity and rounded ripe tannins results in a wine with personality.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Despite having tons of oaky aromas of coconut and vanilla, it's delicious, balanced and rich, with a graphite element. The full but smooth tannins carry the thick berry and plum flavors, which help absorb the generous oak like a sponge. Drink now– 2016.
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.
FED525740_2010 Item# 115175