2008 Vina Alicia Brote Negro Malbec Lujan de Cuyo
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94 Points | International Wine Cellar , January/February 2011
($85; aged in new French oak for 16 months) Bright, full red-ruby. Knockout perfume of blackberry, violet, minerals, licorice; conveys a tiny-berry quality. Compellingly intense and racy in the mouth, with great energy and definition to the perfumed flavors of blackberry, boysenberry, minerals and licorice pastille. This suave, classy, essentially gentle wine finishes with mounting tannins, great sweetness of fruit and terrific grip. These "black shoots" are a mutation of malbec from the same hundred-year-old vineyard used to make the Las Compuerta wine. This wine has been consistently superb in recent years, but 2008 gets my highest rating yet.
92 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
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CAN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS.....
04/19/2012
by ESTES12440727
I read what was said about this Malbec when it was offered and it sounded very unique. Couldn't have predicted such a stunning impression but was so good in every respect it was hard to decide whether to enjoy it as long as possible in the mouth, or swallow it and get the rush of that really big, fullsome flavor... Glad I got several bottles, gonna keep them 'password protected' for whatever amazing future they may unfold...
