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MALBEC 2014 Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza
Vintage Assessments Tasting Note Producer VERSADO
Extremely deep intense purple colour. Very faintly reedy, spicy, still quite youthful, ripe plum-cherry-apple-cassis nose with some savoury, cedary, lead pencil notes. Dry, medium-full bodied, quite well structured, faintly savoury, slightly spicy, intense, fairly dense, maturing plum-cherry flavours with a lingering, cedary, very faintly bitter, cooked red apple finish. This REPEAT has 14.5% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar. The recommended 2014 (**+) was last released on May 12, 2018 at $22.95. TONY ASPLER / 89-points / BUY - Tobacco, blackberry, cedar and pencil lead nose with a light floral note; medium-bodied, dry, savoury, plum flavours with lively acidity and a firm finish. CSPC 317008
Type Red Table Wine
Agent Cru Win
Country Argentina
Region
Rating **/**+(88.5 points)
Dry, Intense, Firm, Spicy, Ripe
LCBO Note Status Recommended by Vintage Assessments!
TASTING NOTE: Old, glacial irrigated vines at a not so insignificant 1000m of altitude are the source for Ann Sperling and Peter Gamble's Versado. The 2014 malbec is exceptionally floral, penetratingly spicy and deep into its own repentant terroir. The heights are assessed and acquiesced with great interest in malbec with an intensity of lift like few other. It's a curious case of do I enjoy this now at its high tone stage or do I let it settle so that the flowers and the fruit are brought back down to the Luján de Cuyo earth? The easy way out is both. Done. Drink: 2020-2028. Tasted April 2018. Score - 90 (Michael Godel, winealign.com, May 12, 2018) Price $ 22.95
Bottle Size 750 mL
Tasting Date vintages release - November 24, 2018
Cases bought 167 (12 bottles per case)

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