Community Tasting Note
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camdawg Likes this wine: 90 points
March 11, 2023 - At the time of writing this tasting note, the average score for this wine and vintage is only 85.2 points. This might not be a wine that changes your life, but I think that average score is far too low.
Catena/El Enemigo wines to me are graceful and easy drinking at their respective price ranges. And this wine was no different to me. I think it helped that I used a wider glass. To me, it helped the wine open up.
The nose had a nice blend of fruit, a blend of red, purple, black and blue. Along with a note of vanilla on the back end, suggesting the oak treatment.
And yes, there is some oak on the palate. But it's very smooth and fine. It doesn't taste "woody". Rather, it's a thin wrapping of the wine on your palate, that might introduce hints of vanilla and espresso on the finish.
The fruit on the palate is elegant, if not super intense. The mouthfeel is wet. This is Malbec, so it's darker fruited. But a little bit of blue fruit intensity shows up to help spread the wine throughout the palate.
This is very nice at the $25 and under price point.573 views