having this tonight with, what else, filet. This is a huge intense wine with a lot of pepper in the nose. A bit green so will be decanting.It has a nice lingering taste which I will spend the next ten minutes obsessing over beofre I figure out what it is
2006 Achaval Ferrer Malbec
Feb 14, 2008
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Would enjoy your TN's after you have the wine. I still have a bottle of the '05 in the cellar. was not altogether excited when I had the first. I put the seocnd away for a while longer in the hope it might develop some more interesting character.
AxisOfBeagles wrote in news:2008021416275516807-me@donotreplycom:
Actually I hadn't meant to send pre mature posting commmon enough disorder. As it opened the very berry (raspberry mainly) nature of the wine came out. I was sort of intrigued because Dale says he doesn't care for Malbec and yet I was reminded of the vegetal character of one of Dale's favorites, Cab Franc. Though as noted green on its own it went well with the steak which helped to broaden the mouth characters while the acidity cut the richness of the steak. A very nice blend. I would in a better world have saved this one for a couple of years.
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