2015 Devil Proof Malbec Farrow Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  9/25/2023 - TMOVino2 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Sadly my last bottle of this particular bottling. Takes me right back to sitting on a leather couch in a little photo gallery in Healdsburg for @andykatzphotography tasting his son @jkatzwine wines with @lauren_e_wong . Since then the wines, photos, and experience have only grown exponentially. This is and will always be one of the coolest labels to me. Devil Proof is now even more a true cult wine. Jesse now owns Farrow Ranch. This particular bottling is a labor of love. Fermented in barrels, hand punch downs and careful oversight. Opaque ruby purple and magenta rim in the glass. Aromas of plum, raspberry jam, sweet tobacco, chocolate, and vanilla hints. This is still very youthful. It carries all the fruit and spices with an electric line of acidity and extraordinarily fine tannins. Live well, drink well, and the devil can’t get you!
  
  94+ - still going strong on day 3. Plenty of life left in these.

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  6/16/2018 - TMOVino2 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Love this label. I haven't had many California Malbecs. Jesse's Farrow Ranch Malbec is deep purple and has delicious black fruit, leather, spice notes. The tannins are so well integrated and silky on the palate. An easy drinker now, but should show off nicely in a few more years of bottle aging. Saving my other bottle of this vintage a few more years.

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  5/25/2018 - Millennial Drinkers wrote: 93 Points

  First time trying these Malbecs from Jesse Katz and Devil Proof. Thanks Lauren for cracking these for us!
  
  Dark purplish red with some garnet too. Loads of spices on the nose intermixed with red berries and some blue fruit. Medium plus tannins (7.5/10) and full body. Rich and a touch dry on the palate with layers of black currants, dirt, herbs, black dried fruits, bark and almost a touch of cola. A bit spicy too leading into the long finish. Drink till 2036.
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