*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Bottlenotes.
Quite a while ago, the folks from Bottlenotes contacted me about trying their wine club service. I did, and I wrote up the bottles at various times. Along the way, I wrote a review of one of the wines that I didn’t particularly like and the folks contacted me again and wanted me to try a different Malbec instead. I readily agreed, and this bottle of 2003 Enrique Foster Limited Edition Malbec arrived. It hails from Mendoza, Argentina, had a real cork closure, and retails for around $53. Quite frankly, this was an amazing wine and easily the best Malbec I’ve ever had.
On the nose I found red currants, vanilla, clove, baking spice, cinnamon, mulled cider, cherry, plum, and pencil shavings. I found the nose to be incredibly enticing and I wanted to go swimming in my glass. This definitely turned into one of those ocassions where I still had my nose stuck in my glass while Matt had already moved on his second glass of wine. in the mouth I got red currants, cherries, licorice, plum, spice, and earth. The fruit showed as big and red and red. The best was to describe this wine is as a big, bold, knock you down red that has enough going on to keep anyone interested. The layers of flavors and aromas kept coming and after just 20 minutes in my glass the wine was smooth and fantastic.
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For about the last twelve months I have been fascinated by Malbec. It all started after a dinner at The Goucho Grill (http://www.gauchorestaurants.co.uk/), a renowned Argentinean steak house in London’s west end. The subtle way the spicy licorice flavours underlie the big red fruit body of every (good) malbec never fails to disappoint.
I have some of these terrific wines to taste so what the blog for my notes.
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I’ll definitely watch your blog for your notes Chris!