Color - Dark ruby red, nearly purple
Nose - Blackberry and Tobacco
Taste - The fruit is the first thing this wine brings, lots and lots of dark, jammy fruit. Black cherry, plum and currant right on the attack. The tannins are very smooth, though a little light for my taste. The alcohol bite is present just for a second and then fades. The wine is fruity, sweet, has a longer finish than I had expected and a heavier mouthfeel as well. It's my favorite Malbec right now, and at 5.99 on sale who can pass it up? Even at 7.99 it's a great bargain. Pairs well with any savory food and quite a few sweet chocolate dishes, just don't expect it to do wonders on your palate with "serious" dishes. It's passable for an every day red wine. Buy this instead of your run-of-the-mill table wine, Chianti, or other similar dinner wine.
Overall, this is a great wine for the price. Don't expect complexity or elegance, this isn't your high end Argentinian wine. But it's nice, slightly sweet, not too dry and very drinkable. This is one you can drink without food and it will hold up nicely. I would advice to always have a bottle or two around the house just in case you get a hankering for a decent sweet red wine that doesn't break the bank.
Redwood Creek Wines
Why is it called "Redwood Creek"? Are there redwoods in Argentina? Just wondering.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I could be wrong Redwood Creek Wines are produced by Frei Brothers Vineyards which is owned, in part or whole, by E & J Gallo Winery. The moniker Redwood Creek probably comes from a creek in California. Under the company profile Redwood Creek, Frei Brothers, acts as a Négociant (the French term for a wine merchant who assembles the produce of smaller growers and winemakers and sells the result under its own name). It just so happens they're Malbec comes from Argentina rather than California. California does produce Malbec, but it is probably cheaper to purchase Argentinian Malbec seeing how that country produces the most of that particular wine.
ReplyDeleteDoes Argentina have redwoods? While conducting a little research on this for you, I was able to find out that redwoods are only native to California and China with small plantings of them in other Northwestern and Eastern United States and the United Kingdom. So no Argentina doesn't have any redwoods.