Winemaker Notes
Intense red with purplish highlights. Fresh cherries balanced with toast and vanilla from aging in American oak mixed with notes of strawberry jam in nice balance with reminiscence of rosemary, watermelon, pear and raspberry. Soft and elegant sweet tannins which remind of raspberry jam. Its aftertaste is fruity with a hint of smoky oak. Well balanced and lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
This offers an engaging core of ripe plum and dark currant flavors, lifted by fresh acidity. A mix of dried herbs, hot stone and cocoa powder lingers on the finish. Drink now through 2019. 30,000 cases imported.
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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