A TOP WINE OF THE YEAR!
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"Made with 100% estate grown fruit from 30+ year old vines, this entry-level Malbec immediately blew us away in terms of its complexity and concentration. This is some serious juice that could easily go for $20+ a bottle. With its alluring dark fruit and floral aromas, intense flavors, soft tannins, and long finish, this is a complete wine through and through."
- Staff Note
"It's fair to say that no other country delivered value in this year's DWWA to match that sent over to us from Argentina, and this saturatedly dense, dark Malbec from the prized highlands of Gualtallary makes this point admirably. It's initially beefy and purposeful in aroma, the plum and sloe fruits emerging in purer form with time in the glass or the decanter. There's admirable weight, lyricism and lift to those fruits: Gualtallery is never clumsy. Better still, in place of overt tannins and intrusive acidity there is a kind of sappy, stemmy freshness which combines the function of both texture and acidity -- and that, in fact, is the origin of the fruit's notable energy and charm. Value Best In Show wines rarely exceed the appeal you'll find here."
- Decanter, 97 Points (Value Best in Show)