2008 Achával-Ferrer Quimera

Community Tasting Notes (87) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  10/3/2021 - Thief Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Red, occasionally sour, cherries and wood (cedar) dominate the aromas. This is a fairly concentrated wine that has a very full mouth feel. It definitely woke up after a few hours in the dencanter. For me, I think it is in its prime drinking window because the tannins have started to soften (a bit) since my last tasting of this a few years ago, but the fruit is less pronounced. I'm not sure this has the balance to improve more in the future. So drink up over the next year or three. Great every day drinker.

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  5/18/2021 - DesMarteau Likes this wine:

  Hard to rate....still too young. corivined a glass out of a bottle (big pour) and drank over 3 hours...never fully settled down. Cherry core, plum, at times sour and out of balance....that changed. dark as night and needs more time IMO.
  
  Other 1/2 bottle drank 8/14….let these age 20 . Concertrated….very deep purple wine with a ton of sediment. I think this is packed with fruit and needs age.

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  3/11/2021 - bon vivant wrote: 91 Points

  Surprisingly tannic upon opening so it went into a big mag decanter and within 15-20 min really softened and came to life. The Cab in the blend was the most prominent aromatic component but the Malbec on the attack reminded me a lot of the wine in it's younger days. There is still a noticeable cedar aromatic tinge which I attribute to the relatively large new oak treatment, noticeable but not really disturbing at least to me. Overall a pretty tasty number and a wine that seems to hold it's own on the aging curve. it continued to soften and quite enjoyable with a nice ribeye. Should continue to drink well for another 2-3 years perhaps more but probably not much further upside

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  10/28/2020 - studleytrey Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Last bottle in '11, so I'll do a new note for this last of my 3 bottles. Cork felt a little soft and seemed it might crumble, so switched to the ah-so. The bottle smelled really corked upon extraction, but fortunately, a pour into the decanter quickly blew it off.
  
  Still an opaque, black coloring, and surprisingly still a purplish ruby at the very edges. Smells like dark and dark red fruits, violet, graphite minerality, dark chocolate, and walnuts. Medium body, medium (+) acid and finish, with flavors of tart and bright darker fruits like plum and black raspberry, minerals, chocolate, walnuts, and dry spices. Kinda wish I had another, as I could see it being interesting with some more mature notes and think, at least based on this bottle, it's got a couple more years in the tank if you like 'em a little dusty like me.

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  10/28/2020 - Aris1a wrote: 89 Points

  Good for every day drinking. Some red fruit, prunes, spices, touch of new leather. Medium tannins and medium body. Very pleasant overall, and very good QPR.

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