Dark berries
Stone fruit

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Estancia Mendoza Reserv Malbec

Name: Estancia Mendoza Reserv Malbec
SKU: 143427
Price: 14.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

Wine · Argentina · 13%

$14.99each

What it tastes like

An Argentine Malbec with rich dark fruit, plum and blackberry, smooth tannins and a balanced finish.

Dark berries
Stone fruit

Additional information

Wine
Style: Argentina
Origin: 13% ABV
Alcohol: 0.8 per bottle
Standard drinks

The story of Estancia Mendoza Reserv Malbec

Estancia Mendoza is made at a winery in Tupungato, in Argentina's Uco Valley, where the vineyards sit about 1,100 metres up in the Andean foothills and are irrigated with mountain meltwater. The winery is a subsidiary of Fecovita, the largest wine producer in Argentina.

Malbec reached Argentina in 1868, when the French agronomist Michel Pouget brought vines at the request of the provincial governor, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. It is now the country's most widely planted red grape, and the high districts of Mendoza, between about 800 and 1,500 metres, are where it does best. Argentine Malbec tends to be plusher and less tannic than the Malbec of Cahors, its home in France.

The Reserva is 100 per cent Malbec. The grapes are destemmed and fermented at a controlled temperature, and the wine goes through natural malolactic fermentation. In the glass it shows plum, blackberry and raspberry with a little vanilla, and the palate is silky, with rounded tannins and a generous finish. Steak is the obvious partner, and lamb or a good cheeseburger work just as well.