Winemaker Notes
The color is bright violet color with shades of ebony.
The bouquet is of ripe plums, cherries and spice are complemented by a hint of tobacco. The taste is ripe red berries, balanced acidity and sweet tannins leading to a deliciously long finish.
Well-matched with barbecued meats, robust pasta entrées and sharp cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Deep color, slightly reticent aromatics, dense and layered on the palate, excellent length.
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Wine Enthusiast
Earthy and rugged at first, then it smooths out to show cola and lush berry aromas. Plump and round in the mouth with jammy blackberry core flavors, a hint of herbs and spice, and then a chewy, sticky, generous finish. Very nice Malbec with a cool identity.
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.
SWS291810_2008 Item# 96500