Community Tasting Note
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Whisky&Wine Likes this wine: 93 points
March 28, 2021 - This wine is so inconsistent. This is my third time having this wine in the last few years and each bottle is different.
One was super drying and heavy cranberry. I used it to make pasta sauce later in the week after disliking the first glass. (80)
One was rather unremarkable and came across as a reasonably good cab franc or malbec blend. Not bad but not remarkable. (88)
This bottle was great. Silky, powerful, rich and very engaging. Clearly a malbec and a rather voluptuous one at that. Light finish after a fruit forward attack and mid palate, with secondary flavors announcing themselves as the fruit faded away. Nuanced and interesting. It invited more tastes. I opened it because I wasn't feeling inspired and decided to head to the South American section of the cellar. A nice surprise.
I have a good friend who is very into Argentinian wine. He has visited the vineyards and knows some of the makers. When I texted him last night, just a pic and saying wow this really exceeded my expectations, he wrote back "yeah nice stuff but really inconsistent." So I guess it isn't just me.
I bought these on release from Zachy's and they've been perfectly cellared since. So I'm not sure why there would be such variation among my six bottles unless there are some quality control issues. Those should not exist in their flagship / at this price point.
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Whisky&Wine commented:
4/1/21, 5:00 PM - So I decided to open another bottle tonight. To see if it would.match up with the last one. Tastes 5+ years older. Far more tertiary notes. Same wine but yeah, inconsistent is the word. Thinking I'll avoid this producer in the future.