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• Adam Pritzker Likes this wine: 88 points

  May 19, 2021 - dark color. nice flavors of dark fruits. ripe, decent concentration. drinks well now. can drink now and over the next few years. nice example, but i'd like to see more complexity and concertation to deserve a higher score. worth trying. not sure i'd put any away

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• wkasimer Likes this wine: 85 points

  March 28, 2021 - Light bodied Malbec. Not as complex as similarly priced from Argentina.

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• bzh4bzh Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 15, 2020 - Nice light bodied balanced red leaning slightly towards a fruity flavor, yet not as fruit forward as many roses. Great red, especially with a lighter meal or summertime.

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• Adam Pritzker Likes this wine: 86 points

  August 6, 2019 - Nice fruity red. Did not show as well as last bottle which was fantastic. Worth retrying as this bottle may be slightly off

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• raccah Does not like this wine: 83 points

  January 21, 2019 - So, this wine is 100% Malbec, and when you taste it side by side the Flechas Malbec, sadly, there is no comparison. Look, to me the 2015 Flechas is better than the 2016 vintage, and the 2016 Flechas Malbec, is far more balanced and controlled than the 2016 Chateau Alvignes Cahors. What is sad, is that the Alvignes has an alcohol level of 13.5%, while the Flechas is at 14.5%. Sure, alcohol has a massive fudge factor built into it, but still, I expected a lower date juice quotient than what I found with this wine.
  The nose on this wine starts off nice enough, but with time it opens to straight-up date juice, overly ripe, unbalanced, and so fruit-forward that it calls into question the alcohol content. The nose on this wine is ripe, really ripe, with fig and date notes, followed by dark and brooding fruit, with tar, and melting asphalt. The mouth on this full-bodied wine is sadly straight date juice, it is so unbalanced that there is really no fruit to be found outside of date, fig, cooked prune, and cassis, all wrapped in a classic Israeli-style mouthfeel and structure that is 100% date, followed by rich saline, and a nice tannin structure. The finish is dark, brooding, date-like, and really not my cup of tea. For those who like it drink until 2022.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Château Alvignes
• Varietal Malbec
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• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Southwest France
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• Appellation Cahors
• UPC Code 859990000268

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• Consumed 15 (83%)

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