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• Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 1, 2024 - Big fan of these wines back in the day...this 06 has always been very high toned, tart, and stemmy. Today...it's INTERESTING! Has that raspberry puree tartness...very youthful looking and brightness...chocolate covered cherries, wintergreen tobacco leaf, licorice dryness...yet there is this intriguing "aged wine" sous bois-ness that plays mind games with the seemingly youthful fruit? That's really the only excitement, as the fruit drys out quickly and gets stemmy, and there really is not much complexity...but that interplay of youth and age is very interesting...and makes the wine worth my attention. I think these wines are better served in their youth imo...but I am by far no expert in Argentinian Malbec.

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• jcovino Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 9, 2016 - Excellent profile, good fruit and enchanting nose....PoP. Probably at the end of its life, but in a great place.

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• ClausJ wrote: 91 points

  September 21, 2015 - Having last drunk 2006 a year ago where I most certainly would agree with other comments about tiredness this bottle had a welcome freshness to it with full fruits intact. Turning around or a rare good bottle?

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• winos2 wrote: flawed

  August 3, 2015 - Sadly this did not keep as well as I thought it should have.

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• todos.tom wrote:

  September 21, 2014 - Bummed... Only drank it because I bought it... It's tired.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Achával-Ferrer
• Varietal Malbec
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Argentina
• Region Mendoza
• SubRegion Lujan de Cuyo
• Appellation n/a
• UPC Codes 811751021110, 874053006063

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• In Cellars 156 (23%)
• Consumed 524 (77%)

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