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Deep red color with violet hints. Dark fruits and exotic spices with tobacco and mocha hints. Elegant, well balanced, harmonious, long persistence with chocolate flavors.

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91 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The 2007 Estate Red is composed of 60% Malbec, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 20% Shiraz that was aged for 15 months in 100% new French oak. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it offers up a brooding nose of toasty oak, mineral, tobacco, mocha, exotic spices, and assorted black fruits. Supple on the palate with a suave personality, it reveals incipient complexity, 3-5 years of aging potential, and a lengthy, pure finish. It, too, delivers plenty of bang for the buck." - Jay Miller (Dec 2010)

90 Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:
"60% malbec with 20% each cabernet and syrah; aged 18 months in new French barriques Densely packed and deep, with sweet flavors of black fruits and bitter chocolate perked up by herbs and licorice. Has the stuffing to support its obvious oak element. In a rather powerful and tactile style, finishing broad and sweet, with serious structure and thrust." - Stephen Tanzer (Jan/Feb 2010)

Focus on Argentina
By Stephen Tanzer of International Wine Cellar

"My tastings of new releases from Argentina turned up a higher percentage of well-made wines than ever before, thanks in part to an extended run of very good to excellent vintages. My annual coverage features a generous selection of stunning values in the under-$20 range, as well as a growing number of world-class higher-priced items. In addition to malbec, cabernet sauvignon and torrontes stood out in my tastings this year."

Read the full article at Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:
http://www.wineaccess.com/expert/tanzer/article.html?content_id=68653

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