Winemaker Notes
Silky cinnamon, allspice, violets and black cherry, this Malbec offers savory flavors and promises complexity with age.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Reserve Malbec is aged entirely in new American and French oak, 80% and 20% respectively. It has a lifted bouquet of blackberry, boysenberry and wild hedgerow that is clean and pure, but if I am truly honest, it does not have the razor-sharp clarity of the Malbec 2011. The palate is medium-bodied, rounded and smooth with crisp acidity. There are lovely rounded blueberry and dark plum flavors defining the sensual finish, but it requires a little more edginess and tension. This is a fine Malbec, although I would have preferred less new 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.
TGI12831_2010 Item# 118560