Have to agree with the comment below...this wine is not past it's prime..in its sweet spot. Paired with beef and lamb and was a perfect pair. Still has plenty of time. Enjoy!
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Really nice wine that’s drinking beautifully here with a soft decent and 30 min of air. I found this to be perfectly balanced at this point of its maturity.
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Drinking really nicely here with food. It is showing bright red fruit and acidity, but pairing with a nice red meat, in our case we paired with a grilled fillet and chimichurri, then the fruit rounds out more to purple and the acidity is more muted.
I’m very disappointed with the 12 CellarTracker tasters Who said the drinking window on this wine closed in 2018. This wine is drinking well at well for the next few years. I would say that tertiary notes are still fairly needed, the tannic structure is strong and last from the beginning of the palate through the first 30 seconds of the finish. When people estimate these drinking windows, do they only rely upon initial tannic structure or do they consider the acidity as well? Inquiring minds wanna know
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this didn't need any decanting. It was damn near perfect. Wish we had bought more than one, then I saw how much we paid for it and understand why we didn't get a second bottle. The notes say drink by 2018 and I think they are right. Its peaked and we got to it in time. Lucky us.
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Needs about an hour of decanting to really open up and show its depth of body: nice fruit with a balance of pepper, allspice and crushed stone. Wine shows good balance throughout the profile.
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Decanted and drank over time. Wine is soft and round after about thirty minutes, which was beautiful paired with a flank steak and chimichurri. I wouldn't say this wine will improve with time and clearly is improved with food. It's big purple fruit up front, some tobacco but little in the way of earth, loam or minerals. Some shiitake mushroom exists for just a second on the mid palate. The finish gives a breath of raisin like fruit lingering in the breath before some pepper and spice trails for about twenty seconds. Clearly this wine has good acidity but amazingly the fruit on the palate actually brings faux sweetness, like a zin often will....but there is no confusing this wine for a zin.
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Drinking well now; amazing value for the $$. This wine is better than anything we had in Argentina for 3x the cost (albeit restaurant vs retail comparison. As a pop and pour this needs some time and agitation. Fruit forward but with great structure especially tannins and some earth through Kate body to finish; the wine is seamless. That said the fruit is mostly singularly dimensional and puts red cherries against some cigar smoke. Hence the 91.
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Appearance: Clear, deep purple color, legs. Nose: Clean, intense aromas of dark berries, vanilla, oak, vegetables. Developing. Palate: Dry, medium acidity & alcohol, medium(+) tannin & body. Medium intensity of dark berry, vanilla, spice flavors. medium finish. Conclusion: Very good quality wine. Can drink now, but has further potential to age.
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forrest trees, sweetness through the alcohol, grilled red paprika, softer and restriander than the Malbec, the tannins are more present and more angular, the complexity is a little bit lacking
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Very new world...lots of oak, ripe blackberries and 15,4% alc. Full bodied, balanced with nice acidity and tasty velvety tannins. Very well done. Obvious, but tasty. Recommended!
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No real notes as we drank this on vacation. My last bottle and I enjoyed everyone of them. Just lovely wines that I feel could age a little I just never gave them a chance cause I liked what they give you when young.
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Popped & poured. Reading the other reviews looks like it should have set it aside for a couple of hours. Deep purple, almost indigo color. Nose of violet and dark fruit. Palate was all fruit, almost raisiny. Enough tannin to stay out of the jam category, but still pretty one-dimensional.
3/25/13. Some vegetal notes fright after opening, but otherwise consistent with previous comments.
4/5/14 Liked it a little better this time. If you didn't know anything about wine, I think this is what you would expect dark purple to taste like. Still short on the tannin and/or acid to give it a good finish.
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Consistent notes. Not sure I will ever see one of these age unless a friend of mine keeps his hands off of the bottles that he bought. Just a wonderful wine.
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You know it is such a problem when you know you aren't going to taste a wine when it will be mature... because you just can't withstand the urge to drink them all up!
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Le vin est très foncé. Le vin est très costaud, mais montre quand même une certaine complexité aromatique et son équilibre me surprend. Je vais en racheter!
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2 hour decant. Wine seemed to show more this time around. Plum & spices, these are always a joy to drink for my wife and I. very good full bodied finish that is smooth and mouth coating. They always seem to over performe for me as I have served these up to people who are not Malbec fans and they love them.
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Bramare lujan de cuyo malbec 2009 bright fruit , violets. Has some animal notes. Chocolate and pepper linger on the long finish. More complexity then the uco valley one 89
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The colour is inky purple and dense. The nose is jammy and generous. The flavour is rich and fruit-forward. The finish is lingering, with complexity, and with flavours of oak, leather, and black tea. The tannic acid is prominent but not overpowering, suggesting a moderate ageing potential. Unfined and unfiltered, this wine is aged 18 months in small oak barrels. The grapes are grown at 945 to 1100 meters elevation, making the skins of the grapes thicker. A fine performance. Excellent.
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1 Hour decant. Dark fruit, vanilla and spice notes. Dark purple color. Cant wait to try this again so I can spend more time with it as this bottle was shared between 6 people.
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Yowza. Like drinking a black hole filled with Darth Vader's blood. This is quite a wine. This serves up a great big dollop of Malbec madness that is all about hedonism and fruit forward pleasure. Brilliant and full on nose of peanuts, spices, cedar, burnt wood - pleasure in extremis. Wow - the nose just builds and builds with more black fruit and great concentration. This is like a St Julien on steroids. Serious quality on the nostrils. The palate - milky chocolate, bitter tangy notes, opulent, rich and very alluring. There is a touch of heat here but really this has a depth of quality that is quite brilliant. I am not a fan of big wines, but this pulls off the trick of being slutty, forward and huge whilst at the same time showing depth, quality and a smooth, alluring finish. One of those wines that you think you should scorn because of its modernism, but with a big fat steak is just so so so so so enjoyable. Young and plump, and it will no doubt keep for a while but why wait? Grrrrrrr.
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11/20/2022 - mankam wrote:
Great. Can’t get better than this. Drink up now.
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8/6/2022 - Wpdawg Likes this wine: 91 Points
Have to agree with the comment below...this wine is not past it's prime..in its sweet spot. Paired with beef and lamb and was a perfect pair. Still has plenty of time. Enjoy!
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3/19/2022 - mankam Likes this wine: 95 Points
Minimal decanting time and great bouquet. A tough if sweetness and we’ll balanced.
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6/16/2021 - Rick 4 Wine Likes this wine: 94 Points
Really nice wine that’s drinking beautifully here with a soft decent and 30 min of air. I found this to be perfectly balanced at this point of its maturity.
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3/27/2021 - Rick 4 Wine Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drinking really nicely here with food. It is showing bright red fruit and acidity, but pairing with a nice red meat, in our case we paired with a grilled fillet and chimichurri, then the fruit rounds out more to purple and the acidity is more muted.
I’m very disappointed with the 12 CellarTracker tasters Who said the drinking window on this wine closed in 2018. This wine is drinking well at well for the next few years. I would say that tertiary notes are still fairly needed, the tannic structure is strong and last from the beginning of the palate through the first 30 seconds of the finish. When people estimate these drinking windows, do they only rely upon initial tannic structure or do they consider the acidity as well? Inquiring minds wanna know
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4/17/2020 - Rick 4 Wine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drinking nicely with thirty minutes in a decanter. Had with red meat a la parilla con chimichurri
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11/7/2019 - olioli wrote: 93 Points
Un pur délice!
Un fruité incroyable.
Une finale époustouflante.
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12/16/2018 - winewitch59 Likes this wine: 93 Points
this didn't need any decanting. It was damn near perfect. Wish we had bought more than one, then I saw how much we paid for it and understand why we didn't get a second bottle. The notes say drink by 2018 and I think they are right. Its peaked and we got to it in time. Lucky us.
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11/20/2016 - Ombibulous Likes this wine:
Norma y yo tomamos esta botella despues de su llegada en marzo o abril. Nos gustó mucho. Probablemente el mejor Malbec que jamás he tomado en mi vida.
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7/27/2016 - Rick 4 Wine Likes this wine: 92 Points
Needs about an hour of decanting to really open up and show its depth of body: nice fruit with a balance of pepper, allspice and crushed stone. Wine shows good balance throughout the profile.
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5/30/2016 - jakob.krummenacher@gmail.com wrote: 92 Points
Very well made malbec with fruit and nuance, with a long aftertaste. Very enjoyable. Drink now-2025
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4/13/2016 - Rick 4 Wine Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted and drank over time. Wine is soft and round after about thirty minutes, which was beautiful paired with a flank steak and chimichurri. I wouldn't say this wine will improve with time and clearly is improved with food. It's big purple fruit up front, some tobacco but little in the way of earth, loam or minerals. Some shiitake mushroom exists for just a second on the mid palate. The finish gives a breath of raisin like fruit lingering in the breath before some pepper and spice trails for about twenty seconds. Clearly this wine has good acidity but amazingly the fruit on the palate actually brings faux sweetness, like a zin often will....but there is no confusing this wine for a zin.
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7/14/2015 - Rick 4 Wine Likes this wine: 91 Points
Drinking well now; amazing value for the $$. This wine is better than anything we had in Argentina for 3x the cost (albeit restaurant vs retail comparison. As a pop and pour this needs some time and agitation. Fruit forward but with great structure especially tannins and some earth through Kate body to finish; the wine is seamless. That said the fruit is mostly singularly dimensional and puts red cherries against some cigar smoke. Hence the 91.
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6/5/2015 - Mathieu Deguire wrote: 92 Points
- Brick color.
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5/15/2015 - bbcc66 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Decanted for 2 hrs. Smooth, dry, dark fruit tastes. Medium body. Consistent tastes throughout the bottle. Delicious.
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2/20/2015 - Turgut Tokgoz Likes this wine: 90 Points
Appearance: Clear, deep purple color, legs.
Nose: Clean, intense aromas of dark berries, vanilla, oak, vegetables. Developing.
Palate: Dry, medium acidity & alcohol, medium(+) tannin & body. Medium intensity of dark berry, vanilla, spice flavors. medium finish.
Conclusion: Very good quality wine. Can drink now, but has further potential to age.
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8/13/2014 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 91 Points
forrest trees, sweetness through the alcohol, grilled red paprika, softer and restriander than the Malbec, the tannins are more present and more angular, the complexity is a little bit lacking
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6/7/2014 - Ridgerunner Likes this wine: 91 Points
A masterful and affordable Malbec by Paul Hobbs.
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9/28/2013 - vsbastosx Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very new world...lots of oak, ripe blackberries and 15,4% alc. Full bodied, balanced with nice acidity and tasty velvety tannins. Very well done. Obvious, but tasty. Recommended!
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7/8/2013 - MarcoAzevedo wrote: 92 Points
Full bodied and lushious. Oak, herbs and plums.
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3/30/2013 - lsnider wrote: 91 Points
No real notes as we drank this on vacation. My last bottle and I enjoyed everyone of them. Just lovely wines that I feel could age a little I just never gave them a chance cause I liked what they give you when young.
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1/8/2013 - KeithSurg wrote: 90 Points
Dark purple, nice nose of dark dried fruit. Juicy mouthfeel, nicely balanced sweet fruit and tannins.
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1/2/2013 - underwds wrote: 88 Points
Popped & poured. Reading the other reviews looks like it should have set it aside for a couple of hours. Deep purple, almost indigo color. Nose of violet and dark fruit. Palate was all fruit, almost raisiny. Enough tannin to stay out of the jam category, but still pretty one-dimensional.
3/25/13. Some vegetal notes fright after opening, but otherwise consistent with previous comments.
4/5/14 Liked it a little better this time. If you didn't know anything about wine, I think this is what you would expect dark purple to taste like. Still short on the tannin and/or acid to give it a good finish.
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11/24/2012 - MXL wrote: 92 Points
I did not decant and should have, 2nd glass much better as it opened up. Delicious.
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11/14/2012 - Pointus wrote: 89 Points
At first, very fruit forward. Decanting for a couple hours seemed to let this wine settle and have improved its glance.
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9/23/2012 - lsnider wrote: 91 Points
Consistent notes. Not sure I will ever see one of these age unless a friend of mine keeps his hands off of the bottles that he bought. Just a wonderful wine.
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9/8/2012 - leonardo_de_araujo wrote: 90 Points
Very fruit forward but very concentrated and big.
Coffee and dark chocolate
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8/30/2012 - Ridgerunner Likes this wine: 91 Points
You know it is such a problem when you know you aren't going to taste a wine when it will be mature... because you just can't withstand the urge to drink them all up!
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6/30/2012 - jimitt01 wrote: 89 Points
Good not great definitely missing something on the mid palate
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5/26/2012 - Opusone99 wrote: 90 Points
Le vin est très foncé. Le vin est très costaud, mais montre quand même une certaine complexité aromatique et son équilibre me surprend. Je vais en racheter!
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4/15/2012 - lsnider wrote: 91 Points
2 hour decant. Wine seemed to show more this time around. Plum & spices, these are always a joy to drink for my wife and I. very good full bodied finish that is smooth and mouth coating.
They always seem to over performe for me as I have served these up to people who are not Malbec fans and they love them.
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4/3/2012 - difran wrote: 84 Points
Hot on the nose. A little raisiny.
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3/4/2012 - leonardo_de_araujo wrote: 89 Points
Bramare lujan de cuyo malbec 2009
bright fruit , violets. Has some animal notes.
Chocolate and pepper linger on the long finish.
More complexity then the uco valley one
89
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1/9/2012 - Ombibulous wrote: 90 Points
The colour is inky purple and dense. The nose is jammy and generous. The flavour is rich and fruit-forward. The finish is lingering, with complexity, and with flavours of oak, leather, and black tea. The tannic acid is prominent but not overpowering, suggesting a moderate ageing potential. Unfined and unfiltered, this wine is aged 18 months in small oak barrels. The grapes are grown at 945 to 1100 meters elevation, making the skins of the grapes thicker. A fine performance. Excellent.
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11/23/2011 - lsnider wrote: 90 Points
1 Hour decant. Dark fruit, vanilla and spice notes. Dark purple color. Cant wait to try this again so I can spend more time with it as this bottle was shared between 6 people.
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9/23/2011 - pjaines wrote:
Yowza. Like drinking a black hole filled with Darth Vader's blood. This is quite a wine. This serves up a great big dollop of Malbec madness that is all about hedonism and fruit forward pleasure. Brilliant and full on nose of peanuts, spices, cedar, burnt wood - pleasure in extremis. Wow - the nose just builds and builds with more black fruit and great concentration. This is like a St Julien on steroids. Serious quality on the nostrils. The palate - milky chocolate, bitter tangy notes, opulent, rich and very alluring. There is a touch of heat here but really this has a depth of quality that is quite brilliant. I am not a fan of big wines, but this pulls off the trick of being slutty, forward and huge whilst at the same time showing depth, quality and a smooth, alluring finish. One of those wines that you think you should scorn because of its modernism, but with a big fat steak is just so so so so so enjoyable. Young and plump, and it will no doubt keep for a while but why wait? Grrrrrrr.
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