Steve Rura

9.5

40 year old vines. Blend of Cab Franc and Petit Verdot. 13.5% abv. Feels so young for a 2016! Red berries, spice, raisin and fresh greens on the nose. Delicate palate, underripe raspberry and red currant, with a refined long herbal finish and bitter notes. Great soft, tingly tannins. Excellent Bordeaux, I have to say. St Julien style. I’m amazed at how fresh this tastes after almost a decade. — 21 days ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.2

A blend of Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot, aged in French oak 65% new and 35% 1 year old, fruit sourced from Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley. Deep Ruby with aromas of dark fruit, earthy and floral spice. On the palate flavors of blackberry and tart cherry flavors, with vanilla, licorice, citrus and herb spice. Fine tannins, well balanced long finish ending with tart fruit and a sweet earthy mineral character. Nice! A Fav! — 5 months ago

Jake Hajer

8.9

Good balance of acidity and r.s. Would like to try this aged. — 4 years ago

Steve Mitchell

9.1

Decanted for 1 hour and it tight and complex. Mellowed out after we paired with our meal. — 8 days ago

Jason Phillips

8.9

Deep purple, good nose. Balanced and dry finish. Good overall. — a month ago

Jessica Elliott

9.6

Dry, crisp & refreshing. Tasted so wonderful with our steak dinner — 8 months ago

with Sam

M. Christopher Roebuck

9.3

Deep rich purple in color. Mustiness on open that blew off over 20 minutes. Earth, grilled meat, with a layer of stewed strawberry vanilla on top, the remaining wood component will continue to convert to tertiary flavors with additional age. Dry with medium acidity, medium plus alcohol, medium plus tannins, with a lengthy finish with a lingering chalky white pepper. This wine is excellent and will improve.

This was my 2nd bottle and review of this wine. The notes are fairly consistent but the mustiness was not present in the first. Interesting.

93 points — 4 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

Vintage 2012 | great smell with all Saint Julien characteristics, taste falls back in this modest year. Lovely effort though. — 25 days ago

Adam Gäfvert

9.6

Wow. First time really I get super excited about a Malbec. This is really something. Captivating and deep with great intensity and balance. Beautiful nuances. A big step up from your average malbecs and even a big step up from other premium malbecs as well. — 2 months ago

Ambrose

9.1

dry enough for nicole, but not tooo dry. The rosé version of this is even better in her book :). i agree… hints of green apple and dry enough. — a year ago

with Nicole