The 2011 Malbec Jamilla’s Vineyard is from a 30-year-old vineyard in Perdriel in Lujan de Cuyo where the soils have 30-40 centimeters of topsoil, a calcareous layer, and the bottom is composed of big boulders. This provides for austere, mineral and vertical wines. All these top-of-the-range wines are a blend of a great number of micro-vinifications, in different ways, but mostly the destemmed grapes fermented with indigenous yeasts in 500-liter oak barrels, but you also have bins, cement, full clusters here and there... Diversity. You have to pull the wine, it is not a wine that talks, you need to pull it out of the glass. It is vertical, mineral serious, harmonious. A classical beauty with freshness, acidity and minerality, different, and earthy, with notes of blood and iron, violets and cherries. This is a superb terroir wine that transcends the variety. At this quality level, this is a real bargain. Drink now-2025. - Luis Gutierrez

Offers a floral, vibrantly fruity aroma, with flavors of blueberry, raspberry and ginger that fill the sleek, supple finish. Features plenty of acidity as well, with dried meat and humus notes on the finish. Drink now through 2020. – KM