CATENA - Appellation Paraje Altamira Malbec - 2014

CATENA

Appellation Paraje Altamira Malbec 2014

- 92 points -

Bright, full ruby. Very ripe aromas of black fruits, smoky minerals and bitter chocolate, plus a whiff of truffley forest floor. Sweet, supple and quite dense, but showing terrific inner-mouth lift for such a ripe wine. With its crushed-berry flavors, this wine shows the most obvious early sweetness of these appellation-labeled Malbecs. The substantial tannins arrive late and build, giving the wine the support for a slow evolution in bottle. But there's no austerity even today.

Stephen Tanzer, July 2018


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