The 2006 Clos des Andes is 100% Malbec sourced from an 80-year-old vineyard in Lujan de Cuyo and aged for 12 months in 50% new French oak. Dark ruby/purple in color it offers up an alluring bouquet of pain grille pencil lead spice box and black cherry. This leads to a wine with excellent density layered fruit and spicy black fruit flavors nicely concealing enough structure for 2-3 years of further development. This rich well-balanced effort will be at its best from 2010 to 2019.