2011 Achával-Ferrer Malbec

Community Tasting Note

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Friday, December 4, 2020 - This is still showing a very confident deepish crimson colour. The vegetal theme is still there on the nose, even more so - dried grass, just-starting-to-rot grass, but there is plenty of ripe, spice-laden plum and zest here too, which compensates. The grassy aspect doesn't follow on to the palate, thankfully, and this is tasting as if the seven years since my last note hadn't passed at all! Monolithic, surprisingly fresh and youthful, there may be another decade in this. Not fine wine, being too brash and in-my-face to be so, even discounting the not entirely enrapturing aromatics. Very good, though I'm sure I'd tire of this quickly enough if it ever made the daily-drinker list, unless porterhouse steak was the only food in the house.

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