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Carinae, Malbec, Harmonie, Mendoza, 2017
Deep and inky. Intense aromas of black cherries with coffee, vanilla and toast nuances. With silky, classy, brambly and cassis fruit, tinged with dark chocolatey oak, this is concentrated and delicious. Superb at this price. Now-2024 What... Read More
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ColourRed
RegionMendoza
GrowerCarinae
Grape VarietyMalbec
Vintage2017
ABV14.5%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeCAE217
Carinae
Mendoza, Argentina
Frenchman Philippe Subra, with his wife Brigitte, came to Argentina as the national boss of EDF, the French energy giant - but loved the country so much he cleverly bought some long-established vineyards and settled there, on the south side of Mendoza. He has built a small cellar - boutique indeed, whilst wholly lacking the pretension that word implies!
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Malbec
Malbec is a red grape whose home is in south-west France, and specifically in the appellation of Cahors.
There (known as Cot) it makes a strongly flavoured wine which is, all too often, tannic and rustic and needs several years ageing to show its best.
Like Carmenère in Chile, it is much more successful in Argentina than in its homeland. Introduced in the mid 19th...
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Carinae, Malbec, Harmonie, Mendoza, 2017
Deep and inky. Intense aromas of black cherries with coffee, vanilla and toast nuances. With silky, classy, brambly and cassis fruit, tinged with dark chocolatey oak, this is concentrated and delicious. Superb at this price. Now-2024
What distinguishes the Carinae Malbecs is the very old vine fruit from three parcels of ancient vines (between 90 and over 100 years old!) just south of Mendoza, at Cruz de Piedra, near the winery, and especially at Calle Cobos in Perdriel, Luján de Cuyo. These are renowned for producing concentrated, inky juice of wonderful quality.
This wine, based on those old vines and given a year in French oak, used to be labelled as the Malbec Reserva: but as Argentine wines can no longer use this title for exports to the EU, French owner Philippe Subra has now renamed it Harmonie.
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