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• Dagalaifus Likes this wine: 89 points

  September 21, 2018 - This California Malbec is made by the typically brilliant Elias Rodriguez (Shafer). In the glass, the wine is dark purple with a nose of toasted oak, red cherry and blackberry. On the palate, the same toasted oak (on steroids), red cherry and blackberry with subtle hints of mint/eucalyptus, mocha and tar. The finish is medium length. I enjoyed the wine, but it doesn't live up to certain well-known wine critics' hype, and the oak is overwhelming. Then too, it tastes nothing like the best examples of that varietal from Argentina.

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