It is a Friday night in July and Tom & I are reading the paper while dinner roasts in the oven. We are so happy it is the weekend! Tom chose this Malbec for tonight and I took some time to let the wine breathe and I have been sniffing and tasting in order to provide an accurate description. I purchased this wine at A & L Wine Castle in Ann Arbor. It was a spur of the moment decision a couple nights ago to stop by on my way home and get a half case of wine. This was one that ended up in my trunk.
Although I like this wine, I think it is young and might be better six months from now. By that I mean that it has the potential to be quite complex but, today, it is a rather simple wine. The nose is black licorice. The taste is mushrooms and violets — this has real potential. I am going to suggest to Tom that we purchase more of this wine to lay down for 6 months to a year.
Cheers to Tommy and Tony. I am thinking about my boys. . .
February 13, 2009 at 8:08 am
Thanks for your review. I just purchased a bottle of this in a half price sale, pretty much half a year after you wrote this. So hopefully it will be good now.
February 13, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Jeremy — excellent! Please do report back and let us know what you think, okay? We would love to hear from you.
February 14, 2009 at 4:23 am
I drank the malbec last night and found it a little disappointing. It wasn’t horrible, but it lacked body and I found it’s flavour profile a bit simple. Probably best to keep it in the cellar for another couple of years, or otherwise bring it out sometime late at night when you’ve got friends round, just for knocking it back.
February 14, 2009 at 9:01 am
Okay, good and useful assessment. I’m glad it at least wasn’t horrible. But your opinion sounds like ours 6 months ago. Thanks for checking back, Jeremy!