2006 Bodega Flechas de Los Andes Malbec Gran Malbec

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  6/6/2018 - studleytrey wrote: 88 Points

  Well, here we are 3 years from the last, and this is still a seriously dark pouring wine—fully opaque with purplish ruby at the very edges. Largely consistent with the previous descriptors, though perhaps a little settled down in intensity, which is fine by me, as this was a monster of a wine.
  
  Aromas of dark fruits, graphite, violet, clove, and dried spices. Medium body, fairly high acidity, and long finish, with flavors of dark fruits, graphite minerality, and dried spices. Still packs a punch. I kind of wish I'd have sat on this a couple years longer, but you never know I guess. Actually, that's not true, as I have a Coravin, but I didn't use it here. Dummy. Then again, I kind of think this is the intended style, although I've been experimenting a little with aging some more bombastic Australian wines that've grown out of my preference to pretty good effect, and I think a similar result could transpire here as well. Maybe we'll see with a couple of later vintages of this I'm holding...

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  2/21/2015 - snowstrm Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Brought this back from Mendoza in 2009. Wish I waited another 3 years. Dark purple out of the bottle with dark fruit all throughout but dominated by a foundation of mouth-coating tannins. It didn't soften a whole lot in glass. There is enough going on to indicate this wine will be quite nice once the tannins soften.

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  2/20/2015 - studleytrey wrote: 88 Points

  It's funny that the last review on this is from 2012—either everyone's drinking them up young (my guess), or they're still holding. I actually haven't tasted this wine since shortly after release at a tasting bar in Mendoza, and it's the first of 2 bottles that I own of the '06.
  
  Well, for the probably 0 people reading this (and likely more so my personal reference), this is insanely youthful looking in the glass—strikingly inky black for its age with just a bit of ruby peeking through at the edges if the light hits it right. The nose is all black and blue fruits with charcoal and tar. On the palate, it's medium bodied, but mouth filling, with a smooth, rolling texture in the mouth, medium acid, medium+ finish, and flavors of black and dark red fruits and fairly notable minerality that lingers. Dare I say this could pass for a Cru Bourgeois or Bordeaux Supérieur? I'll stand by that. The fruit is sweet, but there's just enough acid (barely) to keep it from being flabby. The 15.5% alc. is well integrated (I only just now looked b/c I'm feeling a little buzz off this at lunchtime). The tannins are fully integrated at this point, so I'm not sure what will happen w/ more age, but I'm going to give my other bottle a little longer and see if it evolves into something more to my preference these days.

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  8/3/2012 - BBennett wrote: 92 Points

  Deep dark purple. The nose was at first full of dark fruit bosenberry and blueberry. Then in the glass a bit much alcohol. However this is an elegant malbec. The dark fruit and mineral flavors gently start and build through a long finish.

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  6/10/2011 - msilveira Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Very good colour, taste and smell. I really like it!
  The wine looks Purple colored.
  The legs are Slow.
  It tastes like and Coffee.
  The body is Medium/Full.
  The wine finishes Medium.

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