Winemaker Notes
Intense deep red color with violet hues. Complex
aromas of plums and ripe cherries and violets. It is
enhanced by the presence of dry fruits and mint
hints. A wine of great concentration and complexity
showing sweet and voluminous tannins.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Purple color; wood smoke, violets, black cherry, and black currant; extracted, ripe, good volume.
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.
OPI63616_2009 Item# 111970