Winemaker Notes
Made from 100% Malbec. The wine is fermented in French oak barrels for two years, with an additional year in bottle prior to release.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2007 Cadus Malbec spent 12 months in French oak barriques. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it offers up a lightly roasted bouquet of confiture of black fruits. Jammy and full-bodied on the palate, it tries to make up in power for what it lacks in finesse. It will appeal to those who enjoy a big wet kiss as opposed to a peck on the cheek.
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Wine Enthusiast
Supersaturated, so much so that it's opaque, with blackberry, horseradish and chocolate aromas. In the mouth, it's on the cusp of overextraction but manages to toe the line. Flavors of roasted berry, coconut and bitter chocolate are dark and lead to a tannic finish. Drink now through 2014.
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.
YNG508027_2007 Item# 108553