Pop and pour. This is a textbook example of why I don't drink much malbec. This is very fruity in an inelegant way. The wine was ok with a steak, by itself it seemed heavy-handed and on the industrial side. The 2nd half of the bottle is now reserved for cooking.
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Deep Ruby with purple highlights Medium (+)nose of red cherry, black cherry, smoke, liquorice, coffee and chocolate Dry, medium acid (again this call is after group correction, everything I tasted that night was high acid....just couldn't make good acid calls), high alcohol, medium (+) silky tannin, full. body, medium finish (orig. called long) and proounced intensity of red cherry, black cherry, smoke, liquorice, coffee and chocolate Guesses: I thought this was NW and guessed at Zinfandel. Couldn't find any capsicum or cassis so didn't go with cab.
Mistakes: I messed up on the finish of this one and cheap malbecs never have more than a medium finish. The ripe fruit, alcohol, fruit forwardness and the CHOCOLATE as well as purple rim should have taken me to Malbec
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6/9/2023 - alpara Likes this wine: 91 Points
Lovely plum and berry notes, rounded tannin - aged well
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7/23/2022 - galewskj wrote: 85 Points
Pop and pour. This is a textbook example of why I don't drink much malbec. This is very fruity in an inelegant way. The wine was ok with a steak, by itself it seemed heavy-handed and on the industrial side. The 2nd half of the bottle is now reserved for cooking.
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7/15/2022 - Heynetty wrote:
D3 DipWSET STILL WINES - Prep with Lauren and Mike: Tasted Blind
Deep Ruby with purple highlights
Medium (+)nose of red cherry, black cherry, smoke, liquorice, coffee and chocolate
Dry, medium acid (again this call is after group correction, everything I tasted that night was high acid....just couldn't make good acid calls), high alcohol, medium (+) silky tannin, full. body, medium finish (orig. called long) and proounced intensity of red cherry, black cherry, smoke, liquorice, coffee and chocolate
Guesses:
I thought this was NW and guessed at Zinfandel. Couldn't find any capsicum or cassis so didn't go with cab.
Mistakes:
I messed up on the finish of this one and cheap malbecs never have more than a medium finish. The ripe fruit, alcohol, fruit forwardness and the CHOCOLATE as well as purple rim should have taken me to Malbec
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6/4/2022 - Jagidoc wrote:
Excellent
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4/15/2022 - glureyus Likes this wine: 84 Points
Took a bit to settle but Yols & I liked it.
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