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2007 Mendel Malbec
Malbec: 750ml
$21.99
points awarded:
ST 90 WA 90 WS 9090 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, August 2009
Mendel's 2007 Malbec was sourced from a 45-acre parcel of 80-year-old vines in Lujan de Cuyo and aged for 12 months in French oak. Purple-colored, it displays an alluring bouquet of cedar, spice box, violets, and black cherry. Medium-bodied and elegant on the palate, it has plenty of savory fruit, cinnamon and allspice notes, excellent depth and concentration, and a fruit-filled finish. This stylish effort will evolve for 2-3 years and deliver prime drinking from 2011 to 2019.
90 points,
Stephen Tanzer's IWC, January 2010
Deep ruby-red. Dark fruits, tobacco and roast coffee on the nose. Silky-sweet but with brisk acid support giving the middle palate a juicy quality and a light touch. Combines New World black raspberry fruitiness with Old World structure. Nuanced, rather backward wine from a 90-year-old vineyard.
90 points,
Wine Spectator, July 2009
A ripe and flattering style, with fruitcake and spice notes up front, followed by creamy, inviting blueberry, boysenberry and licorice flavors that linger through the finish. Nice buried acidity keeps it all together. Drink now through 2010. 5,500 cases made. -JM
