Winemaker Notes
A glass-coating opaque purple color, it sports analluring nose of toasty oak, mineral, licorice,lavender, exotic spices, and assorted black fruits.Dense, rich, and voluptuous on the palate, this isa full-bodied beauty.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2011 Nosotros Single Vineyard Nomade is from Altamira in the Uco Valley. Each vintage will be sourced from the best location for Malbec in that year, which is why the wine now has added the word "nomade" to its name. Future editions will be Vista Flores, Gualtallary. The destemmed grapes fermented in open barriques with manual punching down and a long maceration. There is a strong influence from the élevage here, with plenty of smoke, ash, cigar, toast and spices with roasted coffee, cured meat and dark chocolate mixed in and the Malbec character hiding in the background. It matured for 18 months in 100% new French oak barrels, but some of the barrels had a very light toast much like what is normally used for Pinot Noir. The full-bodied palate has plenty of tannins, good freshness and underlying minerality, It is quite powerful and is an XXL red that needs time in bottle.
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.
YNG272395_2011 Item# 508804