Winemaker Notes
Mapema has an intense red color with violet tones and aromas of black cherry, red plum, cocoa, and sweet vanillin oak. In the mouth, it comes right at you with a burst of black cherry and tangy red fruit and trails into delicate flavors of chocolate, tobacco, coffee and oak. It achieves that elusive combination of concentration, complexity and finesse. Great with foods like veal chops, duck with fruit sauces, beef, lamb, grilled or roasted chicken, and game birds.
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A sweet, toasty style, with rich cocoa, plum sauce, black currant and fruitcake flavors followed by a dark, grippy finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Merlot.
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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