Wine Reviews

Complex, voluptuous and concentrated on the nose and palate. Tarry blackberry fruit, dark chocolate and cigar box with a hint of black pepper. Ripe but very fresh at the same time. Full-bodied and flavorful on the palate, teeming with chalky, silky tannins and fresh acidity. Quite polished. A blend of malbec from Gualtallary, cabernet franc from Altamira and a touch of cabernet sauvignon from Los Chacayes. Drink or hold.

The top selection of Norton’s oldest vineyards, this wine effortlessly melds the different dimensions of malbec and cabernet franc fruit, a dark oil-paint-palette smudge from black to blue to red. It carries the tomato leaf and tobacco accents of the franc as well, adding spice to this mountain wine.

The 2019 Gernot is now 100% from Valle de Uco, which has helped make it very balanced and fresh; it’s also sourced from a cold vintage when the grapes achieved good ripeness and development of aromas and flavors. This is the finest I have tasted to date. This has more finesse, balance and integration than the previous vintages.

The 2019 Gernot Langes is 70% Malbec, 20% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Uco Valley and was aged for 16 months in new and used barrels. Dark purple in hue. The concentrated nose presents notes of dark fruits, herbs and hints of blackberry with refined aromas of oak and mint. It’s intense in the mouth with firm, reactive, young tannins. Needs time in the bottle to settle in the medium term – as one would expect – with this kind of structure.

This is a full-bodied red, loaded with juicy, sleek tannins, before a long, mouthwatering finish.