Winemaker Notes
Blend: 82% Malbec, 10% Syrah, and 8% Petit Verdot
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A dense malbec with minerals, dark chocolate and spices on the nose and palate. It is full and tight with firm tannins and a long finish. Delicious now. Why wait? But it will age beautifully.
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.