Winemaker Notes
This Malbec is dark crimson red with deep violet and black components. This meaty wine shows aromas of ripe, concentrated dark fruits like plums. It begins ample in the mouth, with rich and smooth tannins. The long finish has mineral notes that combine with toasty notes to lend great complexity.
Food Match: venison, roasts, red meat, grilled meats, game, beef, BBQ.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2006’s were bottled in early April 2008, just a week before I tasted them. The 2006 Malbec Vina Venturin is purple/black-colored with an expressive nose of toasty oak, lavender, mineral, blueberry, and black cherry. More forward than the other 2006 Malbecs, it also exhibits greater complexity, sweeter fruit, awesome depth, and a 60-second finish.
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Wine Spectator
This is rather flashy, with lots of mocha and fruitcake aromatics up front, backed by lush raspberry ganache, fig sauce and plum jam flavors. The long, rich, velvety finish has plenty of latent grip, with the fruit sailing on.
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.
PIN244698_2006 Item# 100451