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...
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