Winemaker Notes
We strive to achieve a Malbec with a deep purple color, with a
high intensity of blackberries, blueberries, plums and milk chocolate.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2009 Malbec was sourced from vines averaging 52 years in Agrelo and Las Compuertas. It was aged for 8 months in French and American oak. Opaque purple in color, it sports a racy perfume of spice box, tobacco, floral notes, black cherry, and black raspberry. Medium-bodied with a sense of elegance, it has the structure and balance to evolve for 1-2 years, although there is no reason to delay gratification.
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.
EPC21077_2009 Item# 118681