2020 Casa Madero 3v.

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88.2 points

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  12/25/2023 - WineNerd76 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Deep ruby in color; plums, blackberries, and graphite on the nose; low acidity; medium minus tannins; tastes like licorice, blueberries, and wet slate with a medium finish. Nellie says it's ok. Jason likes it. It probably goes well lighter food.

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  8/24/2023 - Gerhard3 wrote:

  Well-made, well-balanced wine that does not cause a tremendous impact but which in any case did not appear over-oaked to me (and I am quite tough on excessive wood flavours). Restrained, noble fruit. Nice tannins. Ready to drink but no hurry at all.

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  5/13/2023 - lgomberg Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Purchased a bottle at Nick and Steph steakhouse in LA, and asked their wine guy for a hidden gem in $70-$80 price point range. 13,5 abv. Grown at elevation. First time tasting a wine from Mexico. This was dark ruby, clean aromatically with nicely layered dark red and blue fruits, earth and violets, consistent palate, ripe without heaviness,ie no florid vegetal or pyrazine on the palate, medium acid, overall seemed well integrated, fine grained tannins, while young, neutral / restrained oak, medium plus finish. Enjoyed this.

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  11/30/2022 - diggydan wrote: 86 Points

  Totally agree with AlphaMike! My wife drank this by the glass at Puebla's excellent El Mural de los Poblanos (for about 180 p per copa) while I drank tobalas. She said it went well with mole. I thought it was way too overoaked/charred, but certainly made well.

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  1/28/2022 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot wrote: 83 Points

  This wine is a workhorse of my more causal business dinners, client lunches, and lonely hotel bar nights in the any part of Mexico that is NOT Baja California. I've had it more times than I can count but haven't bothered to review it yet. Available almost everywhere in the country and priced around 300 MXN/15 USD retail; you could do a LOT worse.
  
  It's pretty primary - RIPE red raspberries, strawberries. I find that I get strawberries on a lot of Mexican reds. The oak flavors too, are straightforward - just wood, smoke and vanilla with a hint of cinnamon. It doesn't age, and is a remarkably consistant wine between vintages. It's good with food; but not THAT good with food. AND THAT'S OKAY. This wine should be appreciated for exactly what it is: a reasonably priced, servicable crowd pleaser that you can find anywhere in Mexico. There are Napa Meritage blends that cost $80 retail/$160 in a restaurant in the USA that have similar flavor profiles to this wine.
  
  Save your fancy pleasure vacations to Europe and Argentina! You'll find me doing business in regional Mexican cities over multiple bottles of 3v! :P

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