Community Tasting Note

Mike Kopanski wrote:

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - So here we get to taste a Malbec from France. We draw on our extensive experience drinking as many Argentinian Malbecs we can get our hands on, to compare. This one compares well. There is no doubt about the red raspberry meets plum and blackberry fruit profile. There are plenty of earthy, chalky, gritty flavor components that remind us this is Old World. Nice, expressive, ripe, mostly plum and blackberry fresh fruit that shares approximately half the flavor profile with some enhancing secondary flavors like light tobacco, a little bit of tar, vanilla, and graphite. Way more tannins than we get from Argentina. Very much an Old World wine that pays some attention to New World characteristics. The fruit in this wine really emerged with some swirling and time in the glass. Nice job.

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