LA POSTA - Malbec Pizzella - 2012

LA POSTA

Malbec Pizzella 2012

- 90 points -

(aged in 25% new and 75% second-use French oak): Bright red with ruby highlights. Dark berries, bitter chocolate and licorice on the rather oaky nose. Then dense and silky on the palate, with a restrained sweetness to the flavors of candied blackberry and violet. More tightly wound and saline than the Angel Paulucci bottling, finishing with lovely energy, building tannins and sneaky length. These vines are younger than those that produce the Angel Paulucci wine (13 years, vs. 40) but this wine is showing more texture today. An outstanding value. -Stephen Tanzer

March 2014