Got this one as a gift - and put it away - what a mistake! Opened it last week as "emergency kit" for an unplanned dinner with friend of mine. This Malbec, Cab and Petit Verdot cuvee has blown us away! Very dark, overripe cherries optic. The nose is astoundingly complex: vanilla, mint, tobacco, apricot jam, violet, maybe some herbs... The palate is very good and exciting balance between chocolate, roasted almonds, morello cherry, fennel, even cloves and cumin. Finish was certainly dominated by ribes/currant. It was accompanying grilled tuna steaks with truffle-polenta and radicchio rosso salad very well. Maybe because of very thick and sweet old balsamico used for the salad.
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17 years ago