Wine Reviews

Shows engaging aromas of slate, mountain herbs and fresh plum. This red’s pristine structure balances the plum and berry flavors against a saline edge, which lends a mouthwatering quality and lengthens the finish around black pepper notes and smooth-textured tannins.

On the palate, it is elegantly concentrated and deeply textural, concluding with a long, powerful and rich finish balanced by lifted acidity velvety tannins. This is a beautiful combination of contained opulence and vibrant freshness.

The 2019 Malbec Single Vineyard Serenade hails from a vineyard planted on clay and lime soils in 1935 in Agrelo. Fermented with skins. Salmon pink in the glass. It has a Semillón-like nose. In the mouth, it has a good, fatty body and texture with a gentle, fruity white wine flavor and malic acidity.

This is round and sanguine on the nose, with orange rind and cocoa undertones. The palate is full- bodied and round but well constructed, with a fine thread of acidity that gives depth.

Rich but fresh blackberries with dark chocolate, sandalwood with violet and graphite. Just a hint of prune that won’t bother. Full-bodied, ripe and juicy on the palate with firm, fine-grained tannins rounding out the fleshy black fruit. Juicy and pretty long.