Color – Dark purple
Nose – Black currant, blackberry
Taste – This is a great big WOW! Every sip brings big, bold fruits rushing over my palate. I can taste blackberry, currant, dark cherry and plum. The texture is very smooth and perfectly astringent. The transition from dark fruit, to warm spices (pepper, vanilla, licorice) and a nice alcohol heat, and finally to a long finish with oak, tobacco, chocolate and dark fruit skins is just amazing. If I didn’t know how much a bottle of this cost I would swear this is a 20 dollar wine, but it’s only half that price. This tastes much better right from the bottle, though it doesn’t lose anything after decanting rather the finish can adopt a slightly bitter flavor and the alcohol gets just a little more heat to it; other than that it’s the same wine. This wine is full bodied; it has a decent “weight” and “warmth” on the tongue, with a nice long finish. I would say you can pair this with food (barbecue, steak, hearty stews and game) or enjoy this all alone and either way have a wonderful glass of wine.
Overall, this is one of the best bottles of wine I’ve sampled under 10 dollars. The QPR is fantastic on this wine, just as much because the quality of this wine is so high than because it is so inexpensive. A lot of that has to do with the double manual selection process the grapes go through before they make it into this wine. Each batch of grapes is manually gone through so that only the finest grapes go into Alamos’ wines. I can taste the difference as this is a superior bottle of Malbec, if not the best I’ve tasted then only second to the 2007 Bodegas Flechas de los Andes Gran Malbec. I would have to say this is a MUST buy and probably one you’d want to keep around the house at all times.
Alamos Wines
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