Winemaker Notes
The 2010 Oak Cask Malbec has an intense red color with violet hints. The wine shows sweet aromas of blackberry and plum with a touch of black pepper, an elegant touch of smoke and vanilla comes from the oak aging. There is a velevety texture, soft tannins and long finish.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Oak Cask Malbec is a candidate for best bargain in my Argentina tastings. Aged for 9 months in French and American oak, this purple-colored effort displays an alluring nose of cedar, spice box, lavender, and black cherry. In the glass it displays succulent fruit, good depth, and a pure, lengthy finish. It over-delivers in a very big way and could easily pass for a wine costing 3-4 times as much. Drink it over the next 3-4 years.
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Wine Enthusiast
Smoke, rubber and spice aromas mix with ripe berry scents to form a solid and impressive bouquet. It's thick and saturated but balanced, with harmonious, easy to like flavors of blackberry and cassis. Long and solid on the finish; captures the essence of value-priced Malbec.
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.
SWS91409_2010 Item# 111389