Winemaker Notes
This fruit-forward Malbec is a garnet red with a violet hue, and has pleasant aromas of raspberry, cherry and pomegranate. Supple and smooth, dominant avors of cherries, Red Delicious apples and crabapple are accented with cassis, nutmeg and allspice. A long lingering nish highlights a light touch of oak.
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.
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