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We tasted this wine as part of Malbec Day, a worthwhile promotion that I wholeheartedly support and will look forward to for many years to come. I was excited to taste this wine as I had tried their Tempranillo from 2005 a while back and thought it was really good too. It seems Mapema is [...]

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This wine was tasted as a sample from a winery who was promoting Malbec Day. Make sure you are ready when it rolls around again and drink as much Malbec as you can before it arrives next year. A good place to start would be with this Ben Marco. The 2010 was a very good [...]

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Ripe, rich and tannic, this Malbec from the Uco Valley of Mendoza is quite a crowd pleaser. Shorter cycle grapes like Malbec do well in this area, which is why so many tout this region as a superior for producing great wine. There are plenty of black fruits, cherry and cassis to go around on [...]

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This wine was such a pleasure to drink compared to the previous vintage. It’s not like that wine was bad, it was not, in fact it was really pretty good. It’s just that the 2010 blows the 2009 away. This is the embodiment of the purest expression of Malbec fruit that I have tasted in [...]

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Well structured and lush, the wine wafts aromas from the moment it is poured. The flavors come around with minimal breathing time. Grapes for this wine are grown at probably the highest elevation of any other growing region. Add to that the vines are European pre-phylloxera 90-150 years old and that just begins to tell [...]

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Consulting with winemaker Francisco Puga of Amalaya Winery Randle Johnson brings his vast experience to expand the quality being achieved at this winery and this wine expresses that collaboration. The backdrop of this particular story is set in biodynamic South American viticulture, specifically from the vineyard named Amalaya. The wine is a blend of 75% [...]

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