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• Lobonick Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 10, 2017 - Easily one of my favorite wines. Fruit/spice/earth/age/softness and still some grip. I thought this wine was lost, but at 13 years old, it's still beautifully vibrant and complex with years still left to evolve. Nose has plum, baking spice, toffee, earth, smoke, and black licorice. Palate is grippy but still black fruit-driven. There is a soft, buttery texture under the tannins that doesn't quite make it to bacon fat but stays edgy. Finish is bright, sweet, and long. This is an amazingly good wine. I'm in love!

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• Lobonick wrote: 91 points

  September 15, 2012 - Beautiful dark color just very barely starting to show a bit of brick on the edges. Nonetheless, fruit is still present and makes for a beautiful wine with dark berries, plum, licorice, and spices. Fantastic wine.

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• DougLee wrote: 92 points

  February 9, 2008 - Uncorked and sampled over a 3-hour period. Beautiful dark garnet hue. Nose of blueberry, fennel, and spiced tea. On the palate there were strong elements of sweet blackberry, licorice, leather, and pepper. Still quite primary. Tannins were powerful but balanced by the forward fruit. Fairly low-acid wine. Sampled young, this has all the makings of a real classic with a few more years in the cellar.

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• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Viña Alicia
• Varietal Malbec
• Designation Brote Negro
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Argentina
• Region Mendoza
• SubRegion Lujan de Cuyo
• Appellation n/a

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• In Cellars 15 (50%)
• Consumed 15 (50%)

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