Wine Reviews

This slightly muscular version offers an alluring entry of chaparral, wild thyme and dried violet notes that fold over to the rich and contoured core of blackberry, plum paste and graphite flavors. There’s a slight tug of tannins, ending with coffee and dried cherry.

A robust version, with cocoa bean and roasted plum aromas that match the rich palate, which is filled with chocolate-laced cherry and plum flavors. Traces of minerality and fresh herbs break up the lush fruit, with a hint of coffee bean filling out the smooth-textured finish.

The palate is silky, polished and vibrant, deftly balancing seductive textural generosity with a palpably mineral-driven core. It closes with a composed, elegant finish framed by powdery, talc-like tannins and a stony persistence that comes to the fore with further aeration.

From vines planted in 1938 at 3,412 feet in El Cepillo, a sub-region in the Uco Valley, comes this silky Malbec. Fresh strawberry aromas on the nose are inviting. It has finely grained tannins and lots of red fruit flavors in the form of blackberries and strawberries on the palate.

There’s a touch of bark, grilled Mediterranean spice savoriness to the rich but fresh blackberries, salted black plums and graphite notes. Pretty saline and flavorful on the palate. The tannins are powerful yet fine-grained. A structured and characterful malbec from old vines in El Cepillo.